Joshua 2:15-17

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The Promise to Rahab

¹⁵Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was built ^[a]into the city wall, so that she was living on the wall. ¹⁶And she said to them, “Go [west] to the hill country, so that the pursuers [who have headed east] will not encounter you; hide yourselves there for three days until the pursuers return. Then afterward you can go your way.” ¹⁷The men said to her, “We shall be blameless and free from this oath which you have made us swear,

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Footnotes

Joshua 2:15 Modern archaeology indicates that the house may have been built against the wall, so that the city wall also formed the back wall of the house. Otherwise, it may have been built partially or entirely in the wall. The Hebrew preposition (“into/in”) has too wide a range of meaning to be precise.