These wineskins we filled were brand new, but look how they have ripped. Our clothes and sandals have worn out because it has been a very long journey.”

At that time the Lord told Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites once again.” ¹ 

This bread of ours was warm when we packed it in our homes the day we started out to meet you, ¹  but now it is dry and hard. ²