Joshua 9:5-7

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁵ with worn-out, patched sandals on their feet, and worn-out clothes; and all their provisions were dry and mouldy. ⁶ They went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the Israelites, ‘We have come from a far country; so now make a treaty with us.’ ⁷ But the Israelites said to the Hivites, ‘Perhaps you live among us; then how can we make a treaty with you?’