Joshua 9:5-7

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⁵ with worn-out, patched sandals on their feet and worn-out clothes, and all their provisions were dry and moldy. 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.”^{(A) 7} But the Israelites said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live among us; then how can we make a treaty with you?”^(B)