Joshua 2:14
Good News Translation
The men said to her, "May God take our lives if we don't do as we say! If you do not tell anyone what we have been doing, we promise you that when the LORD gives us this land, we will treat you well."

New Revised Standard Version
The men said to her, “Our life for yours! If you do not tell this business of ours, then we will deal kindly and faithfully with you when the LORD gives us the land.”

Contemporary English Version
"Rahab," the spies answered, "if you keep quiet about what we're doing, we promise to be kind to you when the LORD gives us this land. We pray that the LORD will kill us if we don't keep our promise!"

New American Bible
“We pledge our lives for yours,” they answered her. “If you do not betray our mission, we will be faithful in showing kindness to you when the LORD gives us the land.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
They answered her: Be our lives for you unto death, only if thou betray us not. And when the Lord shall have delivered us the land, we will shew thee mercy and truth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They answered her: Be our lives for you unto death, only if thou betray us not. And when the Lord shall have delivered us the land, we will shew thee mercy and truth.

for your's [heb] instead of you to die

1 Kings 20:39 And as the king passed by, he cried to the king, and said: Thy servant went out to fight hand to hand: and when a certain man was run away, one brought him to me, and said: Keep this man: and if he shall slip away, thy life shall be for his life, or thou shalt pay a talent of silver.

when the Lord

Joshua 6:17,25 And let this city be an anathema, and all things that are in it, to the Lord. Let only Rahab, the harlot, live, with all that are with her in the house: for she hid the messengers whom we sent. . . .

Genesis 24:49 Wherefore, if you do according to mercy and truth with my master, tell me: but if it please you otherwise, tell me that also, that I may go to the right hand, or to the left.

Numbers 10:29-32 And Moses said to Hobab the son of Raguel the Madianite, his kinsman: We are going towards the place which the Lord will give us: come with us, that we may do thee good: for the Lord hath promised good things to Israel. . . .

Judges 1:24,25 They saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him: Shew us the entrance into the city, and we will shew thee mercy. . . .

1 Samuel 20:8 Deal mercifully then with thy servant: for thou hast brought me, thy servant, into a covenant of the Lord with thee. But if there be any iniquity in me, do thou kill me, and bring me not in to thy father.

2 Samuel 9:1 And David said: Is there any one, think you, left of the house of Saul, that I may shew kindness to him for Jonathan's sake?

Proverbs 18:24 A man amiable in society, shall be more friendly than a brother.

Matthew 5:7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Context
The Promise to Rahab
13That you will save my father and mother, my brethren and sisters, and all things that are theirs, and deliver our souls from death. 14They answered her: Be our lives for you unto death, only if thou betray us not. And when the Lord shall have delivered us the land, we will shew thee mercy and truth.15Then she let them down with a cord out of a window: for her house joined close to the wall.…
Cross References
Genesis 24:49
Wherefore, if you do according to mercy and truth with my master, tell me: but if it please you otherwise, tell me that also, that I may go to the right hand, or to the left.

Joshua 2:13
That you will save my father and mother, my brethren and sisters, and all things that are theirs, and deliver our souls from death.

Joshua 2:15
Then she let them down with a cord out of a window: for her house joined close to the wall.

Joshua 2:13
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