⁷ So the men set out in pursuit of the spies on the road that leads to the fords of the Jordan,^(A) and as soon as the pursuers^(B) had gone out, the gate was shut.

⁸ Before the spies lay down for the night, she went up on the roof^{(C) 9} and said to them, “I know that the Lord has given you this land and that a great fear^(D) of you has fallen on us, so that all who live in this country are melting in fear because of you.