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Rahab had hidden the two men, but she said, “They did come here, but I didn’t know where they came from. In the evening, when it was time to close the city gate, the men left. I don’t know where they went. But if you go quickly, maybe you can catch them.” (Rahab said this, but really she had taken the men up to the roof and had hidden them in the flax[a] that she had piled up there.)

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 2:6 flax A plant used to make linen.

But the woman had taken the two men(A) and hidden them.(B) She said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they had come from. At dusk, when it was time to close the city gate,(C) they left. I don’t know which way they went. Go after them quickly. You may catch up with them.”(D) (But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under the stalks of flax(E) she had laid out on the roof.)(F)

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