“And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the Lord hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.”
And the men said to her, 'Our life for yours if you do not tell this business of ours; and when the LORD gives us the land, we will deal with you in loyalty and truth' — the spies' oath is reciprocal: they pledge their own lives as security and bind themselves to a future covenant of loyalty and truth when the LORD gives them the land. The phrase 'when the LORD gives us the land' reiterates the underlying theology: the land's conquest is God's work.
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