³ Now there were four men with tzara‘at at the entrance to the city gate, and they said to each other, “Why should we sit here till we die?

⁴ If we say, ‘We’ll enter the city, then the city has been struck by the famine, so we’ll die there. And if we sit still here, we’ll also die. So let’s go and surrender to the army of Aram; if they spare our lives, we will live; and if they kill us, we’ll only die.”