约书亚记二章1至14节

1当下，嫩的儿子约书亚从什亭暗暗打发两个人作探子，吩咐说：你们去窥探那地和耶利哥。于是二人去了，来到一个妓女名叫喇合的家里，就在那里躺卧。

2有人告诉耶利哥王说：今夜有以色列人来到这里窥探此地。

3耶利哥王打发人去见喇合说：那来到你这里、进了你家的人要交出来，因为他们来窥探全地。

4女人将二人隐藏，就回答说：那人果然到我这里来；他们是那里来的我却不知道。

5天黑、要关城门的时候，他们出去了，往那里去我却不知道。你们快快的去追赶，就必追上。

6（先是女人领二人上了房顶，将他们藏在那里所摆的麻秸中。）

7那些人就往约但河的渡口追赶他们去了。追赶他们的人一出去，城门就关了。

8二人还没有躺卧，女人就上房顶，到他们那里，

9对他们说：我知道耶和华已经把这地赐给你们，并且因你们的缘故我们都惊慌了。这地的一切居民在你们面前心都消化了；

10因为我们听见你们出埃及的时候，耶和华怎样在你们前面使红海的水干了，并且你们怎样待约但河东的两个亚摩利王西宏和噩，将他们尽行毁灭。

11我们一听见这些事，心就消化了。因你们的缘故，并无一人有胆气。耶和华─你们的神本是上天下地的神。

12现在我既是恩待你们，求你们指着耶和华向我起誓，也要恩待我父家，并给我一个实在的证据，

13要救活我的父母、弟兄、姊妹，和一切属他们的，拯救我们性命不死。

14二人对她说：你若不泄漏我们这件事，我们情愿替你们死。耶和华将这地赐给我们的时候，我们必以慈爱诚实待你。

Joshua 2: 1-14

1 Now Joshua the son of Nun sent out two men from Acacia Grove to spy secretly, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.”
So they went, and came to the house of a harlot named Rahab, and lodged there.

2 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, “Behold, men have come here tonight from the children of Israel to search out the country.”

3 So the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered your house, for they have come to search out all the country.”

4 Then the woman took the two men and hid them. So she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from.

5 And it happened as the gate was being shut, when it was dark, that the men went out. Where the men went I do not know; pursue them quickly, for you may overtake them.”

6 (But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on the roof.)

7 Then the men pursued them by the road to the Jordan, to the fords. And as soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.

8 Now before they lay down, she came up to them on the roof,

9 and said to the men: “I know that the LORD has given you the land, that the terror of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land are fainthearted because of you.

10 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were on the other side of the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.

11 And as soon as we heard these things, our hearts melted; neither did there remain any more courage in anyone because of you, for the LORD your God, He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath.

12 Now therefore, I beg you, swear to me by the LORD, since I have shown you kindness, that you also will show kindness to my father’s house, and give me a true token,

13 and spare my father, my mother, my brothers, my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.”

14 So 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 we will deal kindly and truly with you.”