⁴ Now the woman had taken the two men and hid them. So she replied, “The men really did come to me, but I didn’t know from where they came. ⁵ At dusk, when it was time to close the city gates, the men left. I don’t know where the men went. Go after them quickly, and^[a] you might overtake them.”

⁶ But she had taken them up to the roof and had hidden them among stalks of flax that she had laid out in order on the roof.