⁶ (But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under the stalks of flax^(A) she had laid out on the roof.)^{(B) 7} So the men set out in pursuit of the spies on the road that leads to the fords of the Jordan,^(C) and as soon as the pursuers^(D) had gone out, the gate was shut.

⁸ Before the spies lay down for the night, she went up on the roof^(E)