“And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.”
The wineskins and clothes as corroborating evidence — These wineskins also were new when we filled them, and look, they are burst; and these clothes and sandals of ours are worn out from the very long journey. The Gibeonites present a coherent, multiply-attested narrative: the wineskins burst (נִשְׁמְרוּ), the clothes deteriorated (בָּלוּ), the sandals wore through—each detail reinforces the chronology of distance traveled. Nothing they say is technically false; rather, truth is marshaled to support a false claim of origin.
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