Joshua 2:15-24

15So Rahab put a rope out through the window of her house. (The house that she lived in was part of the city wall.) The men climbed down the rope.

16Rahab told them, ‘Go to the hills. The men who are chasing you will not find you there. Hide there for three days until they return to this city. Then you can go back to your people.’

17The men said to her, ‘If you do what we say, we will do what we have promised.

18We will soon attack this land. So tie this red string in the window that we came through. Bring your father, your mother, your brothers and sisters and all your family into your house.

19If any of them leaves your house, they may die. If that happens, we will not be guilty. We will only be guilty if our soldiers hurt anyone who is in your house.

20But if you tell anyone about us, we do not have to do what we have promised to you.’

21Rahab said, ‘I agree with what you have said.’ She sent the men away. When they had gone, she tied the red string in her window.

22The two Israelite men went into the hills and they hid there. The king's officers looked along the road for them for three days. They did not find them, so they returned to Jericho.

23Then the two men came down from the hills and they crossed the Jordan River. They went back to Joshua. They told him everything that had happened.

24They said to him, ‘We are sure that the Lord has given us the whole land. All the people there are very frightened of us.’