Douay Rheims Original ↷
Joshua 2 📜 📕 ↷
Rahab Welcomes the Spies
1 THEREFORE Josue the son of Nun sent from Setim two men, to spy in secret, and said to them: Go, and view the Land, & the city of Jericho. Who going entered into the house of a woman, a harlot, named Rahab, and rested with her.📜💬📚
2 And it was told the king of Jericho, & said: Behold there are men come in hither by night of the children of Israel, to spy the Land.📜💬📚
3 And the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying: Bring forth the men that came to thee, and are entered into thy house, for they be spies, and are come to view all the Land.📜💬📚
4 And the woman taking the men, hid them, & said: I confess they came to me, but I knew not whence they were:📜💬📚
5 and when the gate was a shutting in the dark, and they withal went out, I know not whither they be gone: pursue quickly, and you shall overtake them.📜💬📚
6 But she made the men to go up into the roof of her house, and covered them with the stalk of flax, which was there.📜💬📚
7 And they that were sent, followed them, the way that leadeth to the ford of Jordan: and they being gone out, the gate forthwith was shut.📜💬📚
Promise to Rahab
8 Neither were they yet asleep that lay hid, and behold the woman went up to them, and said:📜💬📚
9 I know that the Lord hath given this Land to you: for your terror is fallen upon us, & all the inhabitants of the Land are become faint.📜💬📚
10 We have heard that the Lord dried up the water of the Red sea at your entering, when you came out of AEgypt: and what things you did to the two kings of the Amorrhites, that were beyond Jordan, Sehon and Og, whom you slew.📜💬📚
11 And hearing these things we greatly feared, and our heart fainted, neither did there remain spirit in us at your entering in: for the Lord your God he is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath.📜💬📚
12 Now therefore swear to me by the Lord, that as I have done mercy with you, so you also do with my father's house: and you give me a true sign,📜💬📚
13 that you save my father and mother, my brethren and sisters, and all things that be theirs, and deliver our souls from death.📜💬📚
14 Who answered her: Be our lives for you unto death, only if thou betray us not. And when our Lord shall have delivered us the land, we will do in thee mercy and truth.📜💬📚
15 She therefore did let them down by a cord out of a window: for her house joined fast to the wall.📜💬📚
16 And she said to them: Go up to the mountains, lest perhaps they meet you returning: and there, lie hid three days, till they return, and so you shall go on your way.📜💬📚
17 Who said to her: We shall be quit from this oath wherewith thou hast sworn us,📜💬📚
18 if we entering the Land, there be this purple cord a sign, and thou tie it in the window, by the which thou hast let us down: & gather thy father and mother, & brethren, & all thy kindred into thy house.📜💬📚
19 He that shall go forth of the door of thy house, his blood shall be upon his head, & we shall be quit. But the blood of all that shall be with thee in the house, shall redound upon our head, if any man touch them.📜💬📚
20 But if thou wilt betray us, and utter this talk abroad, we shall be quit from this oath, wherewith thou hast adjured us.📜💬📚
21 And she answered: As you have spoken, so be it done, and dismissing them to go, she hung the purple cord in the window.📜💬📚
22 But they walking came to the mountains, and tarried there three days, till they returned that pursued them: for seeking every way, they found them not.📜💬📚
23 Who being entered into the city, the discoverers returned, and came down from the mountain: and passing over Jordan, they came to Josue the son of Nun, and told him all things that had chanced to them,📜💬📚
24 and said: Our Lord hath delivered all this land into our hands, and all the inhabitants thereof are overthrown with fear.📜💬📚
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