Joshua 9:4

English Standard Version

4 they on their part acted with cunning and went and made ready provisions and took worn-out sacks for their donkeys, and wineskins, worn-out and torn and mended,

New International Version

4 they resorted to a ruse: they went as a delegation whose donkeys were loaded[1] with worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended.

New International Reader’s Version

4 So they decided to trick the Israelites. They packed supplies as if they were going on a long trip. They loaded their donkeys with old sacks and old wineskins. The wineskins were cracked but had been mended.

King James Version

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;