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12 So now, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have shown lovingkindness to you, that you also will show lovingkindness to my father’s household and give me a (A)pledge of [a]truth, 13 and preserve my father and my mother and my brothers and my sisters alive, with all who belong to them, and deliver our [b]lives from death.” 14 So the men said to her, “Our [c]life [d]for yours if you do not tell this business of ours; and it will be when Yahweh gives us the land that we will (B)show lovingkindness and truth to you.”

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 2:12 Or faithfulness
  2. Joshua 2:13 Lit souls
  3. Joshua 2:14 Lit soul
  4. Joshua 2:14 Lit instead of you to die

12 “Now then, please swear to me(A) by the Lord that you will show kindness(B) to my family, because I have shown kindness to you. Give me a sure sign(C) 13 that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them(D)—and that you will save us from death.”

14 “Our lives for your lives!”(E) the men assured her. “If you don’t tell what we are doing, we will treat you kindly and faithfully(F) when the Lord gives us the land.”

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