2:1 Joshua son of Nun sent two spies out from Shittim secretly and instructed them: "Find out what you can about the land, especially Jericho." They stopped at the house of a prostitute named Rahab and spent the night there.
2 The king of Jericho received this report: "Note well! Israelite men have come here tonight to spy on the land."
3 So the king of Jericho sent this order to Rahab: "Turn over the men who came to you - the ones who came to your house - for they have come to spy on the whole land!"
4 But the woman hid the two men and replied, "Yes, these men were clients of mine, but I didn't know where they came from.
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