21. “Let it be as you say,” she replied, and sent them away. When they were gone, she tied the scarlet cord in the window.
22. They went up into the hill country, where they stayed three days until their pursuers, who had sought them all along the road without finding them, returned.
23. Then the two came back down from the hills, crossed the Jordan to Joshua, son of Nun, and told him all that had happened to them.
24. They assured Joshua, “The Lord has given all this land into our power; indeed, all the inhabitants of the land tremble with fear because of us.”