1 Joshua, Nun’s son, secretly sent two men as spies from Shittim. He said, "Go. Look over the land, especially Jericho." They set out and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab. They bedded down there.
2 Someone told the king of Jericho, "Men from the Israelites have come here tonight to spy on the land."
3 So the king of Jericho sent word to Rahab: "Send out the men who came to you, the ones who came to your house, because they have come to spy on the entire land."
4 But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. Then she said, "Of course the men came to me. But I didn’t know where they were from.
5 The men left when it was time to close the gate at dark, but I don’t know where the men went. Hurry! Chase after them! You might catch up with them."