12 Now therefore, I beg you, (A)swear to me by the Lord, since I have shown you kindness, that you also will show kindness to (B)my father’s house, and (C)give me [a]a true token, 13 and (D)spare my father, my mother, my brothers, my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.”

14 So the men answered her, “Our lives for yours, if none of you tell this business of ours. And it shall be, when the Lord has given us the land, that (E)we will deal kindly and truly with you.”

15 Then she (F)let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was on the city wall; she dwelt on the wall. 16 And she said to them, “Get to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you. Hide there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward you may go your way.”

17 So the men said to her: “We will be (G)blameless[b] of this oath of yours which you have made us swear, 18 (H)unless, when we come into the land, you bind this line of scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, (I)and unless you [c]bring your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household to your own home. 19 So it shall be that whoever goes outside the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we will be [d]guiltless. And whoever is with you in the house, (J)his [e]blood shall be on our head if a hand is laid on him.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 2:12 a pledge of truth
  2. Joshua 2:17 free from obligation to this oath
  3. Joshua 2:18 Lit. gather
  4. Joshua 2:19 free from obligation
  5. Joshua 2:19 guilt of bloodshed

31 By faith (A)the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who [a]did not believe, when (B)she had received the spies with peace.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 11:31 were disobedient

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