11. When we heard this, we lost heart, and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the Lord your God is God in heaven above and on earth below.
12. Now please swear to me by the Lord that you will also show kindness to my family, because I showed kindness to you. Give me a sure sign
13. that you will spare the lives of my father, mother, brothers, sisters, and all who belong to them, and save us from death.”
14. The men answered her, “We will give our lives for yours. If you don’t report our mission, we will show kindness and faithfulness to you when the Lord gives us the land.”
15. Then she let them down by a rope through the window, since she lived in a house that was built into the wall of the city.
16. “Go to the hill country so that the men pursuing you won’t find you,” she said to them. “Hide yourselves there for three days until they return; afterward, go on your way.”
17. The men said to her, “We will be free from this oath you made us swear,
18. unless, when we enter the land, you tie this scarlet cord to the window through which you let us down. Bring your father, mother, brothers, and all your father’s family into your house.
19. If anyone goes out the doors of your house, his blood will be on his own head, and we will be innocent. But if anyone with you in the house should be harmed, his blood will be on our heads.
20. And if you report our mission, we are free from the oath you made us swear.”