Have I not commanded you? Be strong and take courage; do not be afraid or dismayed. For Jehovah your God is with you wherever you go.

Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,

Go through the midst of the camp, and command the people, saying, Prepare provisions for yourselves, for in three days you are to cross this Jordan to enter and possess the land which Jehovah your God is giving you to possess.

And to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh Joshua spoke, saying,

Remember the word which Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, saying, Jehovah your God has given you rest and will give you this land.

Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall remain in the land which Moses has given you beyond the Jordan; but you yourselves shall cross over in battle array before your brothers, all the mighty men of valor; and you shall help them,

Until Jehovah gives rest to your brothers as He has to you, and they also possess the land which Jehovah your God is giving them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession, and you will possess that which Moses the servant of Jehovah has given you beyond the Jordan toward the rising of the sun.

And they answered Joshua, saying, All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.

As in all things we listened to Moses, so we will listen to you. Only may Jehovah your God be with you, as He was with Moses.

Any man who rebels against your command or does not listen to your words in all that you command him, let him be put to death. Only be strong and take courage.

And they went and entered the house of a woman who was a harlot, whose name was Rahab; and they lay down there.

And the king of Jericho was told, saying, There are some men who have now come here tonight from the children of Israel to search out the land.

Then the king of Jericho sent word to Rahab, saying, Bring out the men who have come to you and who entered your house, for they have come to search out all the land.

And the woman took the two men and hid them. And she said, Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from.

And when it was time to shut the gate at dark, the men went out; I do not know where the men have gone. Pursue quickly after them, for you can overtake them.

But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among stalks of flax that she had laid out on the roof.

So the men pursued after them on the way toward the Jordan as far as the fords. And as soon as those who pursued after them went out, the gate was shut.

And before the spies lay down, she went up to them on the roof;

And she said to the men, I know that Jehovah has given you the land, and that the dread of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt before you.

For we have heard how Jehovah dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed.