Joshua 2:1-13 ▼

1 And Joshua son of Nun will send out of Shittim two men spying silently, saying, Go see the land and Jericho. And they will go, and will come to the house of a woman, a harlot, and her name Rahab; and they will lie there.

2 And it will be said to the king of Jericho, Behold, men came here this night from the sons of Israel to search out the land.

3 And the king of Jericho will send to Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men having come to thee, which came to thy house: for to search out the land they came.

4 And the woman will take the two men and hide them, and will say thus, Two men came to me, and I knew not from whence they were.

5 And it will be for the shutting the gate in darkness, and the men went forth, and I knew not whither the men went; pursue quickly after them, for ye shall overtake them.

6 And she brought them up to the roof, and she will hide them in woody flax arranged by her upon the roof.

7 And the men pursued after them the way of Jordan at the passages: and they shut the gate afterwards as they pursuing after them went forth.

8 And before they will lie down; and she went up to them upon the roof;

9 And she will say to the men, I knew that Jehovah gave to you the land, and that your terror fell upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melted from your face.

10 For we heard that Jehovah dried up the water of the sea of sedge from before you, in your coming out of Egypt; and what ye did to the two kings of the Amorites that were upon the other side of Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom ye destroyed them.

11 And hearing, our heart will melt and there rose up no more spirit in a man on account of your face: For Jehovah your God, he the God in the heavens from above and upon the earth beneath.

12 And now, swear now to me by Jehovah, as I did with you mercy, and do ye also mercy with the house of my father, and give to me a true sign.

13 And preserve alive my father and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all which is to them, and take away our souls from death.