4. But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, “Yes, the men did come to me, but I didn’t know where they were from.
5. At nightfall, when the gate was about to close, the men went out, and I don’t know where they were going. Chase after them quickly, and you can catch up with them! ”
6. But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had arranged on the roof.
7. The men pursued them along the road to the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as they left to pursue them, the gate was shut.
8. Before the men fell asleep, she went up on the roof
9. and said to them, “I know that the Lord has given you this land and that the terror of you has fallen on us, and everyone who lives in the land is panicking because of you.