12. Now therefore, I beg you, swear to me by the Lord, since I have shown you kindness, that you also will show kindness to my father’s house, and give me a true token,
13. and spare my father, my mother, my brothers, my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.”
14. So the men answered her, “Our lives for yours, if none of you tell this business of ours. And it shall be, when the Lord has given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.”
15. Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was on the city wall; she dwelt on the wall.
16. And she said to them, “Get to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you. Hide there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward you may go your way.”
17. So the men said to her: “We will be blameless of this oath of yours which you have made us swear,