1. Joshua son of Nun secretly sent out two spies from Acacia. Joshua said to them, “Go and look at the land. Look closely at the city of Jericho.”So the men went to Jericho. They went to the house of a prostitute and stayed there. This woman’s name was Rahab.
2. Someone told the king of Jericho, “Some men from Israel have come here tonight. They are spying out the land.”
3. So the king of Jericho sent this message to Rahab: “Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house. They have come to spy out our whole land.”
4. Now the woman had hidden the two men. She said, “They did come here. But I didn’t know where they came from.