¹约书亚派探子进耶利哥

¹And Joshua son of Nun sendeth from Shittim, two men, spies, silently, saying, `Go, see the land — and Jericho;` and they go and come into the house of a woman, a harlot, and her name [is] Rahab, and they lie down there.

²有人向耶利哥王报告：“今夜从以色列人那里有人进来，要窥探这地。”

²And it is told to the king of Jericho, saying, `Lo, men have come in hither to-night, from the sons of Israel, to search the land.

³耶利哥王派人到喇合那里，说：“把那些来到你这里，进了你家中的人带出来，因为他们来是要窥探全地的。”

³And the king of Jericho sendeth unto Rahab, saying, `Bring out the men who are coming in unto thee, who have come into thy house, for to search the whole of the land they have come in.

⁴但那女人已把那两个人藏起来，还这样回答王：“不错，那些人到过我这里来，但是，我不知道他们是从哪里来的。

⁴And the woman taketh the two men, and hideth them, and saith thus: `The men came in unto me, and I have not known whence they [are];

⁵天黑、城门快要关的时候，那些人出去了；我不知道他们到哪里去。你们快去追赶，必可以追上他们。”

⁵and it cometh to pass — the gate is to [be] shut — in the dark, and the men have gone out; I have not known whither the men have gone; pursue ye, hasten after them, for ye overtake them;`

⁶其实她领他们上了屋顶，把他们藏在堆放在屋顶的麻秸里面。

⁶and she hath caused them to go up on the roof, and hideth them with the flax wood, which is arranged for her on the roof.

⁷那些人就沿着往约旦河的路上追赶他们，直到渡口；追赶的人一出城，城门就关上了。

⁷And the men have pursued after them the way of the Jordan, by the fords, and the gate they have shut afterwards, when the pursuers have gone out after them.

⁸探子与喇合之约两个探子还没有躺下睡觉，那女人就上屋顶到他们那里去，

⁸And — before they lie down — she hath gone up unto them on the roof,

⁹对他们二人说：“我知道耶和华已经把这地赐给你们了，你们使我们十分害怕，这地所有的居民都在你们面前胆战心惊。

⁹and she saith unto the men, `I have known that Jehovah hath given to you the land, and that your terror hath fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land have melted at your presence.

¹⁰因为我们听见你们从埃及出来的时候，耶和华怎样使红海的水在你们面前干了，以及你们怎样对待约旦河东亚摩利人的两个王西宏和噩，把他们完全消灭。

¹⁰`For we have heard how Jehovah dried up the waters of the Red Sea at your presence, in your going out of Egypt, and that which ye have done to the two kings of the Amorite who [are] beyond the Jordan; to Sihon and to Og whom ye devoted.

¹¹我们听见了，就都心里惊怕；没有一人再有勇气在你们面前站立；因为耶和华你们的　神是天上、也是地上的　神。

¹¹And we hear, and melt doth our heart, and there hath not stood any more spirit in [any] man, from your presence, for Jehovah your God, He [is] God in the heavens above, and on the earth beneath.

¹²现在求你们指着耶和华向我起誓：我既然恩待了你们，你们也要恩待我的父家，并且给我一个确实的凭据，

¹²`And now, swear ye, I pray you, to me by Jehovah — because I have done with you kindness — that ye have done, even ye, kindness with the house of my father, and have given to me a true token,

¹³放过我的父母、兄弟姊妹和他们所有的一切，救我们的命不致死亡。”

¹³and have kept alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and have delivered our souls from death.`

¹⁴两个探子就对她说：“如果你不泄漏我们这次行动，我们愿以性命作你们的保证；耶和华把这地赐给我们的时候，我们必定以慈爱和诚实待你们。”

¹⁴And the men say to her, `Our soul for yours — to die; if ye declare not this our matter, then it hath been, in Jehovah`s giving to us this land, that we have done with thee kindness and truth.`

¹⁵于是，那女人用绳子把二人从窗户缒下去，因为她的房屋是在城墙上，她就住在城墙上。

¹⁵And she causeth them to go down by a rope through the window, for her house [is] in the side of the wall, and in the wall she [is] dwelling;

¹⁶她对他们二人说：“你们要到山上去，免得追赶的人遇上你们；你们要在那里躲藏三天，等追赶的人回城，然后你们才可以走你们的路。”

¹⁶and she saith to them, `To the mountain go, lest the pursuers come upon you; and ye have been hidden there three days till the turning back of the pursuers, and afterwards ye go on your way.`

¹⁷他们二人对她说：“如果你不遵照我们的话行，你叫我们起的誓就与我们无关了。

¹⁷And the men say unto her, `We are acquitted of this thine oath which thou hast caused us to swear:

¹⁸你要留意，我们再到这地方的时候，你要把这条朱红色线系在你缒我们下去的窗户上；你也要把你的父母、兄弟和你父的全家，都聚集在你的屋里。

¹⁸lo, we are coming into the land, this line of scarlet thread thou dost bind to the window by which thou hast caused us to go down, and thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all the house of thy father thou dost gather unto thee, to the house;

¹⁹任何人走出你家门，到外面去的，他的血就必归到他自己的头上，与我们无关；任何人同你在屋里的，如果有人下手加害他，他的血就归到我们头上。

¹⁹and it hath been, any one who goeth out from the doors of thy house without, his blood [is] on his head, and we are innocent; and any one who is with thee in the house, his blood [is] on our head, if a hand is on him;

²⁰如果你泄漏了我们这次的行动，那么，你叫我们起的誓就与我们无关了。”

²⁰and if thou declare this our matter, then we have been acquitted from thine oath which thou hast caused us to swear.`

²¹那女人回答：“照你们的话，就这样吧。”于是打发他们二人走了。他们走了以后，她就把朱红色线系在窗户上。

²¹And she saith, `According unto your words, so it [is];` and she sendeth them away, and they go; and she bindeth the scarlet line to the window.

²²探子回报二人离去，上到山上，在那里住了三天，等追赶的人回城去了；追赶的人一路搜寻他们，却找不着。

²²And they go, and come in to the mountain, and abide there three days until the pursuers have turned back; and the pursuers seek in all the way, and have not found.

²³二人于是下山回去，过了约旦河，回到嫩的儿子约书亚那里，把他们遭遇的一切事向他报告。

²³And the two men turn back, and come down from the hill, and pass over, and come in unto Joshua son of Nun, and recount to him all that hath come upon them;

²⁴他们又对约书亚说：“耶和华真的把那地全交在我们手里了；那地所有的居民都在我们面前胆战心惊。”

²⁴and they say unto Joshua, `Surely Jehovah hath given into our hand all the land; and also, all the inhabitants of the land have melted at our presence.`