1. Then Joshua, son of Nun, secretly sent out two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, reconnoiter the land and Jericho.” When the two reached Jericho, they went into the house of a prostitute named Rahab, where they lodged.
2. But a report was brought to the king of Jericho: “Some men came here last night, Israelites, to spy out the land.”
3. So the king of Jericho sent Rahab the order, “Bring out the men who have come to you and entered your house, for they have come to spy out the entire land.”
4. The woman had taken the two men and hidden them, so she said, “True, the men you speak of came to me, but I did not know where they came from.