4. But the woman took the two men and hid them. And she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from.
5. And when it was time to shut the gate for the night, the men left, and I do not know where they went. Chase after them quickly, for you may catch up to them.”
6. (But she had taken them to the roof and had hidden them in the stalks of flax that she had spread out on the roof.)
7. So the men chased after them on the way to the Jordan at the fords; and they shut the gate behind the pursuers that had gone out after them.
8. Before they went to sleep, she came up to them on the roof
9. and said to the men, “I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that dread of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away in fear because of your presence.
10. For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you went out from Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.
11. We heard this, and our hearts melted, and no courage was left in anyone because of your presence. For Yahweh your God is God in the heavens above and on the earth below.
12. So then please swear to me by Yahweh, because I have shown loyalty to you, and you will also show loyalty to my family. You must give me a sign of good faith,
13. and you will spare my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all that belongs to them; you will deliver our lives from death.”