Bible verse
But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, “Yes, the men did come to me, but I did not know where they had come from.
Joshua 2:4 · BSB
The verses around it, from Joshua 2.
1 Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.
2 And it was reported to the king of Jericho: “Behold, some men of Israel have come here tonight to spy out the land.”
3 So the king of Jericho sent to Rahab and said, “Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, for they have come to spy out the whole land.”
4 But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, “Yes, the men did come to me, but I did not know where they had come from.
5 At dusk, when the gate was about to close, the men went out, and I do not know which way they went. Pursue them quickly, and you may catch them!”
6 (But Rahab had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had laid out there.)
7 So the king’s men set out in pursuit of the spies along the road to the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as they had gone out, the gate was shut.
8 Before the spies lay down for the night, Rahab went up on the roof
KJV
And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they [were]:
ASV
And the woman took the two men, and hid them; and she said, Yea, the men came unto me, but I knew not whence they were:
ERV
And the woman took the two men, and hid them; and she said, Yea, the men came unto me, but I wist not whence they were:
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