Joshua 2:15-24

15Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was on the city wall, so that she was living on the wall. 16She said to them, “1Go to the hill country, so that the pursuers will not happen upon you, and hide yourselves there for three days until the pursuers return. Then afterward you may go on your way.” 17The men said to her, “2We shall be free from this oath 3to you which you have made us swear, 184unless, when we come into the land, you tie this cord of scarlet thread in the window through which you let us down, and 5gather to yourself into the house your father and your mother and your brothers and all your father’s household. 19It shall come about that anyone who goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we shall be free; but anyone who is with you in the house, 6his blood shall be on our head if a hand is laid on him. 20But if you tell this business of ours, then we shall be free from the oath which you have made us swear.” 21She said, “According to your words, so be it.” So she sent them away, and they departed; and she tied the scarlet cord in the window.

22They departed and came to the hill country, and remained there for three days until the pursuers returned. Now the pursuers had sought them 7all along the road, but had not found them. 23Then the two men returned and came down from the hill country and crossed over and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and they related to him all that had happened to them. 24They said to Joshua, “Surely the Lord has given all the land into our hands; moreover, 8all the inhabitants of the land have 9melted away before us.”