¹⁷ Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; otherwise, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are ruined, but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.”

⁴ they on their part acted with cunning: they went and prepared provisions^[a] and took worn-out sacks for their donkeys and wineskins, worn out and torn and mended,