John Gill Commentary Joshua 9:5

"and old and patched shoes upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and was become mouldy." — Joshua 9:5 (ASV)

And old shoes and clouted upon their feet
Which being worn out, were patched with various pieces of leather:

and old garments upon them ;
full of holes and rents, ragged and patched:

and the bread of their provision was dry [and] mouldy ;
having been kept a long time, and unfit for use; or like cakes over baked and burnt, as the Targum and Jarchi: the word for "mouldy" signifies pricked, pointed, spotted, as mouldy bread has in it spots of different colours, as white, red, green, and black, as Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret it; or it signifies bread so dry, as Ben Gersom notes, that it crumbles into pieces easily, with which the Vulgate Latin version agrees;

or rather through being long kept, it was become dry and hard like crusts, so Noldius ^F9 ; or very hard, like bread twice baked, as Castell ^F11 .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F9: P. 379. No. 1218.
• F11: Lex. col. 2395.