3 And the king of Jericho sent for Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who came to you, the ones who have entered your house, for they have come to search out the whole land.”
4 But the woman took the two men and hid them. And she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from.
5 And when it was time to shut the gate for the night, the men left, and I do not know where they went. Chase after them quickly, for you may catch up to them.”
6 (But she had taken them to the roof and had hidden them in the stalks of flax that she had spread out on the roof.)
7 So the men chased after them on the way to the Jordan at the fords; and they shut the gate behind the pursuers that had gone out after them.
8 Before they went to sleep, she came up to them on the roof
9 and said to the men, “I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that dread of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away in fear because of your presence.