“But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.”
But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them with the stalks of flax that she had laid out on the roof — the roof of Rahab's house becomes the space of her covenantal action, a liminal space between the city below and the promise beyond. The flax stalks provide both concealment and, later, the basis for escape. The act of bringing them up echoes the language of bringing Israel up out of Egypt.
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