3 And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,
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However, when the people of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,
4 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;
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they resorted to a ruse: They went as a delegation whose donkeys were loaded with worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended.