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But Rahab had already hidden the two spies before she received the king’s messengers.

Rahab: It’s true that two men have been to see me. But I didn’t take the time to ask them where they came from. All I know is that when it was getting dark outside and the gate was about to close, they got up and left. I don’t know where they went from here. If you hurry, you might still catch up to them.

She was lying, because the two men lay where she had hidden them beneath the stalks of flax laid out on her roof.

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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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