18
Behold,
when we come into the land, thou shall have bound this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by, and thou shall have brought thy father and thy mother and thy brethren and all thy father’s household home unto thee.
19
And it shall be
that whoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood
shall be upon his own head, and we
will be guiltless; and whoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood
shall be on our head if
any hand touches him.
20
And if thou should declare this our business, then we will be exempted of thine oath which thou hast made us swear.
21
And she said, According unto your words, so
be it. And she sent them away, and they departed; and she bound the scarlet line in the window.
22
And they went and came unto the mountain and abode there three days until their pursuers had returned; and the pursuers sought
them throughout all the way but did not find
them.