These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Joshua 2
Tanakh 24 verses
- 1 And the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two spies secretly, saying: ‘Go view the land, and .’ And they went, and came into the house of a harlot whose was Rahab, and lay there.
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And it was told the of , saying: ‘Behold, there came men in hither to-night of the children of to search out the land.’
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- 3 And the of sent unto Rahab, saying: ‘Bring forth the men that are come to thee, that are entered into thy house; for they are come to search out all the land.’
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And the woman took the two men, and hid them; and she said: ‘Yea, the men came unto me, but I knew not whence they were;
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and it came to pass about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out; whither the men went I not; pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.’
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- 6 But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had spread out upon the roof.
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And the men pursued after them the way to the unto the fords; and as soon as they that pursued after them were gone out, the gate was shut.
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- 8 And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;
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and she said unto the men: ‘I that hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
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Exodus 23:27 Deuteronomy 2:25 Joshua 2:11 Exodus 15:15-16 Genesis 35:5 Job 19:25 Exodus 18:11 Genesis 13:14-17 Ecclesiastes 8:12 Isaiah 19:1 2 Kings 7:6 Genesis 15:18-21 Matthew 20:15 2 Kings 5:15 2 Samuel 17:10 Jeremiah 27:5 Deuteronomy 28:10 Deuteronomy 32:8 Psalm 112:10 Hebrews 11:1-2 Judges 7:14 Exodus 3:6-8 Deuteronomy 11:25 Nahum 2:10 Psalm 115:16 1 Samuel 14:15-16 -
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For we have heard how dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when ye came out of ; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the , unto Sihon and to Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
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- 11 And as soon as we had heard it, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more in any man, because of you; for your , He is in above, and on earth beneath.
- 12 Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by , since I have dealt kindly with you, that ye also will deal kindly with my father’s house—and give me a true token—
- 13 and alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.’
- 14 And the men said unto her: ‘Our life for yours, if ye tell not this our business; and it shall be, when giveth us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.’
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Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was upon the side of the wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
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And she said unto them: ‘Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers light upon you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned; and afterward may ye go your way.’
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And the men said unto her: ‘We will be guiltless of this thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.
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- 18 Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by; and thou shalt gather unto thee into the house thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father’s household.
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And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless; and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.
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But if thou utter this our business, then we will be guiltless of thine oath which thou hast made us to 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.
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And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned; and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but found them not.
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- 23 Then the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to the son of Nun; and they told him all that had befallen them.
- 24 And they said unto : ‘Truly hath delivered into our hands all the land; and moreover all the inhabitants of the land do melt away before us.’