Joshua 2:9-17

9and said to the men, “1I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the 2terror of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land have 3melted away before you. 104For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the 5Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and 6what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you 7utterly destroyed. 11When we heard it, 8our hearts melted and no 9courage remained in any man any longer because of you; for the 10Lord your God, He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath. 12Now therefore, please swear to me by the Lord, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father’s household, and give me a 11pledge of 12truth, 13and 13spare my father and my mother and my brothers and my sisters, with all who belong to them, and deliver our 14lives from death.” 14So the men said to her, “Our 15life 16for yours if you do not tell this business of ours; and it shall come about when the Lord gives us the land that we will 17deal kindly and 18faithfully with you.”

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, “19Go 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, “20We shall be free from this oath 21to you which you have made us swear,