Joshua 9:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“acted deceptively and set out as envoys, carrying on their donkeys worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended.”
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“acted deceptively and set out as envoys, carrying on their donkeys worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;”
King James Version · Public Domain“they also did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine-skins, old and rent and bound up,”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and they work, even they, with subtilty, and go, and feign to be ambassadors, and take old sacks for their asses, and wine-bottles, old, and rent, and bound up,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Joshua 9:4 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 34:13But because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah, Jacob’s sons answered him and his father Hamor deceitfully.
- Joshua 9:12This bread of ours was warm when we packed it at home on the day we left to come to you. But take a look, it is now dry and moldy.
- 1 Kings 20:31Then the servants of Ben-hadad said to him, “Look now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful. Let us go out to the king of Israel with sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads. Perhaps he will spare your life.”
- Psalms 119:83Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.
- Matthew 9:17Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”
- Matthew 10:16Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
- Mark 2:22And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins.”
- Luke 5:37And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined.
- Luke 16:8The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the sons of light.
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