5. At dark, when it was time to close the gate, they left, and I do not know where they went. You will have to pursue them quickly to overtake them.”
6. Now, she had led them to the roof, and hidden them among her stalks of flax spread out there.
7. But the pursuers set out along the way to the fords of the Jordan. As soon as they had left to pursue them, the gate was shut.
8. Before the spies lay down, Rahab went up to them on the roof
9. and said: “I know that the Lord has given you the land, that a dread of you has come upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land tremble with fear because of you.
10. For we have heard how the Lord dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites beyond the Jordan, whom you destroyed under the ban.
11. We heard, and our hearts melted within us; everyone is utterly dispirited because of you, since the Lord, your God, is God in heaven above and on earth below.
12. Now then, swear to me by the Lord that, since I am showing kindness to you, you in turn will show kindness to my family. Give me a reliable sign
13. that you will allow my father and mother, brothers and sisters, and my whole family to live, and that you will deliver us from death.”