001:016 They answered Joshua, saying, "All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go. 001:017 Just as we listened to Moses in all things, so will we listen to you. Only may Yahweh your God be with you, as he was with Moses. 001:018 Whoever rebels against your commandment, and doesn't listen to your words in all that you command him, he shall be put to death. Only be strong and of good courage." 002:001 Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, "Go, view the land, and Jericho." They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there. 002:002 The king of Jericho was told, "Behold, men of the children of Israel came in here tonight to spy out the land." 002:003 The king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, "Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered into your house; for they have come to spy out all the land." 002:004 The woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said, "Yes, the men came to me, but I didn't know where they came from. 002:005 It happened about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out. Where the men went, I don't know. Pursue them quickly; for you will overtake them." 002:006 But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on the roof. 002:007 The men pursued them the way to the Jordan to the fords: and as soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate. 002:008 Before they had laid down, she came up to them on the roof; 002:009 and she said to the men, "I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. 002:010 For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds} before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed. 002:011 As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, neither did there remain any more spirit in any man, because of you: for Yahweh your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath. 002:012 Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a true token; 002:013 and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death." 002:014 The men said to her, "Our life for yours, if you don't talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you."