¹¹ “‘Do not steal.^(A)

“‘Do not lie.^(B)

“‘Do not deceive one another.^(C)

⁴ But the woman had taken the two men^(A) and hidden them.^(B) She said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they had come from. ⁵ At dusk, when it was time to close the city gate,^(C) they left. I don’t know which way they went. Go after them quickly. You may catch up with them.”^{(D) 6} (But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under the stalks of flax^(E) she had laid out on the roof.)^(F)

¹⁴ When Saul sent the men to capture David, Michal said,^(A) “He is ill.”

²⁰ When Absalom’s men came to the woman^(A) at the house, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?”

The woman answered them, “They crossed over the brook.”^[a] The men searched but found no one, so they returned to Jerusalem.