Yosua 2:19-21

2:19 Anyone who leaves your house will be responsible for his own death – we are innocent in that case! ¹  But if anyone with you in the house is harmed, we will be responsible. ²  2:20 If you should report what we’ve been up to, ³  we are not bound by this oath you made us swear.” 2:21 She said, “I agree to these conditions.” ⁴  She sent them on their way ⁵  and then tied the red rope in the window.

Yosua 6:17

6:17 The city and all that is in it must be set apart for the Lord, ⁶  except for Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house, because she hid the spies ⁷  we sent.

Yosua 6:22-25

6:22 Joshua told the two men who had spied on the land, “Enter the prostitute’s house ⁸  and bring out the woman and all who belong to her as you promised her.” ⁹  6:23 So the young spies went and brought out Rahab, her father, mother, brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and took them to a place outside ¹⁰  the Israelite camp. 6:24 But they burned ¹¹  the city and all that was in it, except for the silver, gold, and bronze and iron items they put in the treasury of the Lord’s house. ¹²  6:25 Yet Joshua spared ¹³  Rahab the prostitute, her father’s family, ¹⁴  and all who belonged to her. She lives in Israel ¹⁵  to this very day because she hid the messengers Joshua sent to spy on Jericho. ¹⁶ 

[2:19]  ¹ tn Heb “Anyone who goes out from the doors of your house to the outside, his blood is on his head. We are innocent.”

[2:19]  ² tn Heb “But anyone who is with you in the house, his blood is on our head if a hand should be on him.”

[2:20]  ³ tn Heb “and if you report this matter of ours.”

[2:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “According to your words, so it [will be].”

[2:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “she sent them away and they went.”

[6:17]  ⁶ tn Or “dedicated to the Lord.”

[6:17]  sn To make the city set apart for the Lord would involve annihilating all the people and animals and placing its riches in the Lord’s treasury (vv. 19, 21, 24).

[6:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “messengers.”

[6:22]  ⁸ tn Heb “the house of the woman, the prostitute.”

[6:22]  ⁹ tn Heb “and bring out from there the woman and all who belong to her as you swore on oath to her.”

[6:23]  ¹⁰ tn Or “placed them outside.”

[6:24]  ¹¹ tn The Hebrew text adds “with fire.”

[6:24]  ¹² tn Heb “the treasury of the house of the Lord.” Technically the Lord did not have a “house” yet, so perhaps this refers to the tabernacle using later terminology.

[6:25]  ¹³ tn Heb “kept alive.”

[6:25]  ¹⁴ tn Heb the house of her father.”

[6:25]  ¹⁵ tn Or “among the Israelites”; Heb “in the midst of Israel.”

[6:25]  ¹⁶ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.