Joshua 9:3-9

³And they that dwelt in Gibeon, heard all the things that Joshua had done to Jericho, and to Ai;

⁴and they thought fellily or slyly, and took to themselves meats, and putted eld or old sackcloths on asses, and wine bottles broken, and sewed or patched,

⁵and full eld or old shoes, the which were sewed together with old patches, to show their oldness; and these men were clothed with full old clothes; also the loaves, which they bare for lifelode in the way, were hard and broken into gobbets.

⁶And they went to Joshua, that dwelled then in tents in Gilgal; and they said to him, and to all Israel together, We have come from a far land, and we covet to make peace with you.

⁷And the men of Israel answered to them, and said, Lest peradventure ye dwell in the land, which is due to us by heritage, and we may not make bond of peace with you.

⁸And they said to Joshua, We be thy servants. To whom Joshua said, What men be ye, and from whence came ye?

⁹They answered, Thy servants came from a full far land in the name of thy Lord God; for we have heard the fame of his power, and all things which he did in Egypt,