3. And the sovereign of Yeriḥo sent to Raḥaḇ, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered your house, for they have come to search out all the land.”
4. But the woman had taken the two men and hid them. So she said, “The men came to me, but I did not know where they were from.
5. “Then it came to be as the gate was being shut, when it was dark, that the men went out. I do not know where the men went. Pursue them quickly, so that you overtake them.”
6. But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid out on the roof.
7. And the men pursued them by the way to the Yardĕn, to the fords. And they shut the gate afterwards as soon as the pursuers had gone out.
8. And before they lay down, she came up to them on the roof,