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Hearing this has melted our heart, neither has there remained any more spirit in any man because of you, for the LORD your God is God above in the heavens and in the earth beneath.
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Now, therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD since I have showed you mercy that ye will also do the same unto my father’s house, of which thou shalt give me a true sign,
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and
that ye will save alive my father and my mother and my brethren and my sisters and all that they have and deliver our lives from death.
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And the men answered her, Our life for yours if ye do not declare this our business. And it shall be when the LORD has given us the land, that we will deal with thee according to mercy and truth.
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Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house
was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
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And she said unto them, Go to the mountain lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned; and afterwards ye may go your way.
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And the men said unto her, We
will be exempted of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear
in the following manner.
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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.
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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.
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And if thou should declare this our business, then we will be exempted of thine oath which thou hast made us swear.
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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.