[和合本] 就设诡计，假充使者，拿旧口袋和破裂缝补的旧皮酒袋驮在驴上；
[新标点] 就设诡计，假充使者，拿旧口袋和破裂缝补的旧皮酒袋驮在驴上，
[和合修] 就设诡计，假扮使者【“假扮使者”：有古卷、七十士译本和其他古译本是“带着粮食”】出去。他们拿旧布袋和破裂补过的旧皮酒袋驮在驴上，
[新译本] 就施诡计，假冒使者而来，把旧的布袋和破裂又修补过的旧皮酒袋驮在驴上，
[当代修] 便想出一个诡计来。他们装作特使，把旧皮袋和缝补过的酒囊驮在驴背上，
[现代修] 就决定欺骗约书亚。于是他们拿旧布袋和补过的皮酒袋装食物，驮在驴背上，
[吕振中] 他们也就设了诡计，自备乾粮（原文：假充使者），拿旧口袋和破裂修补的旧皮酒袋给驴驮着，
[思高本] 便设诡计带着行粮上路，将一些旧布袋和破裂缝补的旧酒囊驮在驴上；
[文理本] 乃行诡谲、佯为使者、以驴负旧囊、与既裂复缝之酒革囊、
[GNT] and they decided to deceive him. They went and got some food and loaded their donkeys with worn-out sacks and patched-up wineskins.
[BBE] Acting with deceit, got food together as if for a long journey; and took old food-bags for their asses, and old and cracked wine-skins kept together with cord;
[KJV] 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;
[NKJV] they worked craftily, and went and pretended to be ambassadors. And they took old sacks on their donkeys, old wineskins torn and mended,
[KJ21] they worked cunningly, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wineskins, old and rent and bound up,
[NASB] but they on their part acted craftily and went and took provisions for a journey, and took worn-out sacks on their donkeys, and wineskins that were worn out, split open, and patched,
[NRSV] they on their part acted with cunning: they went and prepared provisions, and took worn-out sacks for their donkeys, and wineskins, worn-out and torn and mended,
[WEB] they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and old, torn-up and bound up wine skins,
[ESV] 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,
[NIV] they resorted to a ruse: They went as a delegation whose donkeys were loaded with worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended.
[NIrV] So they decided to trick the people of Israel. 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.
[HCSB] they acted deceptively. They gathered provisions and took worn-out sacks on their donkeys and old wineskins, cracked and mended.
[CSB] they acted deceptively. They gathered provisions and took worn-out sacks on their donkeys and old wineskins, cracked and mended.
[AMP] They worked cunningly, and went pretending to be ambassadors and took [provisions and] old sacks on their donkeys and wineskins, old, torn, and mended,
[NLT] they resorted to deception to save themselves. They sent ambassadors to Joshua, loading their donkeys with weathered saddlebags and old, patched wineskins.
[YLT] and they work, even they, with subtilty, and go, and feign to be ambassadors, and take old sacks for their asses, and wine-bottles, old, and rent, and bound up,