Joshua 2:12–19

¹²Now therefore, I beg you, ^pswear to me by the Lord, since I have shown you kindness, that you also will show kindness to ^qmy father’s house, and ^rgive me ³a true token, ¹³and ^sspare my father, my mother, my brothers, my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.”

¹⁴So the men answered her, “Our lives for yours, if none of you tell this business of ours. And it shall be, when the Lord has given us the land, that ^twe will deal kindly and truly with you.”

¹⁵Then she ^ulet them down by a rope through the window, for her house was on the city wall; she dwelt on the wall. ¹⁶And she said to them, “Get to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you. Hide there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward you may go your way.”

¹⁷So the men said to her: “We will be ^vblameless ⁴of this oath of yours which you have made us swear, ^18wunless, when we come into the land, you bind this line of scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, ^xand unless you ⁵bring your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household to your own home. ¹⁹So it shall be that whoever goes outside the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we will be ⁶guiltless. And whoever is with you in the house, ^yhis ⁷blood shall be on our head if a hand is laid on him.