218. Rent Bottles

From: Manners and Customs of the Bible By: James M. Freeman

Joshua 9:4

Joshua 9:4⁴They 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; (Joshua 9:4). Wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up.

Bottles made of skins when they get old are liable to be torn. The rents are repaired by sewing the broken edges together, by letting in a piece of leather, by putting in a round piece of wood, or by gathering up the rent place like a purse.

For a description of skin bottles, see note on Matthew 9:17¹⁷Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved. (Matthew 9:17) (#651).

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Manners and Customs of the Bible

• 210. Funeral Feasts

• 211. Plastered Monuments

• 212. Idolatrous Spots

• 213. Treading Olives

• 214. The Everlasting Arms

• 215. Roofs Used for Storage

• 216. Knives

• 217. Stone Heaps

• 218. Rent Bottles

• 219. Degrading Service

• 220. Enemies Trodden On

• 221. Mutilation of Captives

• 222. Baalim Asheroth

• 227. Ambush Near Water

• 228. Windows

• 229. Embroidered Garments

• 230. Torches

• 231. Ornaments

• 232. Baal Berith

• 233. Betrothal and Marriage

• 234. Riddles

• 235. Grinding, a Punishment

• 236. Dagon

• 237. Sports Witnessed From the Roof

• 238. The Middle Pillars

• 239. Gleaning