20 But if you (A)tell this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless with respect to your oath that you have made us swear.” 21 And she said, “According to your words, so be it.” Then she sent them away, and they departed. And she tied the scarlet cord in the window.

22 They departed and went into the hills and remained there three days until the pursuers returned, and the pursuers searched all along the way and found nothing.

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20 But if you tell what we are doing, we will be released from the oath you made us swear.(A)

21 “Agreed,” she replied. “Let it be as you say.”

So she sent them away, and they departed. And she tied the scarlet cord(B) in the window.(C)

22 When they left, they went into the hills and stayed there three days,(D) until the pursuers(E) had searched all along the road and returned without finding them.

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