16. And she said to them, “Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers come upon you. And you shall hide there three days, until the pursuers have returned, and afterwards go on your way.”
17. And the men said to her, “We are released from this oath of yours which you have made us swear,
18. unless, when we come into the land, you bind this line of scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you bring your father, and your mother, and your brothers, and all your father’s household to your own home.
19. “And it shall be that anyone who goes outside the doors of your house into the street, his blood is on his own head, and we are innocent. And anyone who is with you in the house, his blood is on our head if a hand is laid on him.
20. “And if you expose this matter of ours, then we shall be released from your oath which you made us swear.”
21. And she said, “Let it be according to your words.” And she sent them away, and they went. And she bound the scarlet cord in the window.