Joshua 2:13-15

Contemporary English Version

¹³ that you won't let your people kill my father and mother and my brothers and sisters and their families.

¹⁴ “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!”^[a]

¹⁵ Rahab's house was built into the town wall,^[b] and one of the windows in her house faced outside the wall. She gave the spies a rope, showed them the window, and said, “Use this rope to let yourselves down to the ground outside the wall.