Joshua 2:2-14

The king of Jericho was told, “Some men from Bnei-Yisrael have just come here tonight to spy out the land.” So the king of Jericho sent word to Rahab saying: “Bring out the men who came to you, who entered your house—for they have come to spy out all the land.” But the woman took the two men and hid them, and said: “Yes, the men did come to me, but I didn’t know where they were from. So when it was time to shut the gate at dark, the men went out, and I don’t know where they went. Pursue them quickly, for you may overtake them.” But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them in the stalks of flax that she had spread out on the roof. So the men pursued them on the road to the fords of the Jordan. As soon as the pursuers had gone out, they shut the gate. Now before they lay down, she came up to them on the roof, and she said to the men: “I know that ADONAI has given you the land—dread of you has fallen on us and all the inhabitants of the land are melting in fear before you. For we have heard how ADONAI dried up the water of the Sea of Reeds before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed. When we heard about it, our hearts melted, and no spirit remained any more in anyone because of you. For ADONAI your God, He is God, in heaven above and on earth beneath. So now, please swear to me by ADONAI, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father’s house. Give me a true sign that you will spare the lives of my father, my mother, my brothers, my sisters and all who belong to them, and save our lives from death.” The men said to her: “Our life for yours, if you don’t report this business of ours. Then it will be when ADONAI gives us the land that we will deal kindly and loyally with you.”