¹⁹ Anyone who comes out of the doors of your house into the street is responsible for his own blood, and we will be innocent. Yet for anyone who stays with you inside the house, we are responsible for his blood if someone should lay a hand on him. ²⁰ But if you tell about this business of ours, then we will be released from the oath that you have made us swear.”

²¹ She said, “Let it be so, according to your words.”

Then she sent them off, and they departed. Then she tied the red cord in the window.