1. Joshua son of Nun and all the people were camped at Acacia. Joshua sent out two spies. No one knew that Joshua sent out these men. Joshua said to them, “Go and look at the land, especially the city of Jericho.” So the men went to the city of Jericho and stayed at the house of a prostitute named Rahab.
2. But someone told the king of Jericho, “Last night some men from Israel came to look for weaknesses in our country.”
3. So the king of Jericho sent this message to Rahab: “Do not hide the men who came and stayed in your house. Bring them out. They have come to spy on our country.”
4. Rahab had hidden the two men, but she said, “They did come here, but I didn’t know where they came from.
5. In the evening, when it was time to close the city gate, the men left. I don’t know where they went. But if you go quickly, maybe you can catch them.”
6. (Rahab said this, but really she had taken the men up to the roof and had hidden them in the flax that she had piled up there.)