⁴ But the woman had taken the two men^(A) and hidden them.^(B) She said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they had come from. ⁵ At dusk, when it was time to close the city gate,^(C) they left. I don’t know which way they went. Go after them quickly. You may catch up with them.”^{(D) 6} (But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under the stalks of flax^(E) she had laid out on the roof.)^(F)

²⁵ In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction?^(A)