1. Joshua, Nun’s son, secretly sent two men as spies from Shittim. He said, "Go. Look over the land, especially Jericho." They set out and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab. They bedded down there.
2. Someone told the king of Jericho, "Men from the Israelites have come here tonight to spy on the land."
3. So the king of Jericho sent word to Rahab: "Send out the men who came to you, the ones who came to your house, because they have come to spy on the entire land."
4. But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. Then she said, "Of course the men came to me. But I didn’t know where they were from.