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.”
14. And the men said to her, “Our lives for yours. If you do not report this business of ours, we will show you loyalty and faithfulness when Yahweh gives us the land.”
15. Then she lowered them with a rope through the window, as her house was on the outer side of the wall, and she was residing in the wall.
16. And she said to them, “Go to the mountain, so that the pursuers will not find you, and hide yourselves there three days until the pursuers return, and afterward you may go on your way.”
17. The men said to her, “We will be released from this oath of yours that you made us swear.