Then she let them down by a rope through the window; for her house was built into the city wall, so she lived in the wall — Rahab's house, built into the city wall, provides the perfect place for escape; the window becomes the portal through which the spies descend to safety. The phrase 'she lived in the wall' suggests both her physical location and perhaps her social position as a person living on the boundary between security and danger.

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