New English Translation

Joshua 2:5-8 New English Translation (NET)

5. When it was time to shut the city gate for the night, the men left. I don’t know where they were heading. Chase after them quickly, for you have time to catch them!”

6. (Now she had taken them up to the roof and had hidden them in the stalks of flax she had spread out on the roof.)

7. Meanwhile the king’s men tried to find them on the road to the Jordan River near the fords. The city gate was shut as soon as they set out in pursuit of them.

8. Now before the spies went to sleep, Rahab went up to the roof.