Joshua 9:5

WEB

and old and patched shoes on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their provision was dry and moldy.

KJV

And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.

Commentary

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, ragg ed 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 (i); or very hard, like bread twice baked, as Castell (k). (i) P. 379. No. 1218. (k) Lex. col. 2395.