4. They did work craftily, and went and made as if they had been embassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine-bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
5. And old shoes and patched upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and moldy.
6. And they went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Israel, We have come from a far country: now therefore make ye a league with us.
7. And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, It may be ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?