19. We will protect everyone who stays in this house. If anyone in your house is hurt, we will be responsible. But if they go out of your house and are killed, we will not be responsible. It will be their own fault.
20. We are making this agreement with you. But if you tell anyone about what we are doing, we will be free from this agreement.”
21. Rahab answered, “I will do just what you said.” She said goodbye, and the men left her house. Then she tied the red rope in the window.
22. The men left her house and went into the hills. They stayed there for three days. The king’s men looked all along the road. After three days, they stopped looking and went back to the city.
23. Then the two men went back to Joshua. They left the hills and crossed the river. They went to Joshua and told him everything that they had learned.
24. They said to him, “The Lord really has given us all the land. All the people in that country are afraid of us.”