²¹ “Agreed,” she replied. “Let it be as you say.”

So she sent them away, and they departed. And she tied the scarlet cord^(A) in the window.^(B)

⁵ His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”^(A)

The Wise and Foolish Builders^(A)

²⁴ “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice^(B) is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

¹⁸ unless, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord^(A) in the window^(B) through which you let us down, and unless you have brought your father and mother, your brothers and all your family^(C) into your house.