But the woman took the two men and hid them; and she said, 'Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they came from' — Rahab's immediate action to hide the spies demonstrates her swift moral decision-making and her choice to side with Israel against Jericho. Her false claim is a pragmatic deception aimed at deflecting the king's investigation, and it succeeds: the king's servants pursue the spies toward the Jordan fords. This verse shows Rahab as the hinge figure upon which the entire narrative turns.

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