约书亚记 2
1 当下，嫩的儿子约书亚从什亭暗暗打发两个人作探子，吩咐说：“你们去窥探那地和耶利哥。”于是二人去了，来到一个妓女名叫喇合的家里，就在那里躺卧。
And Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two young men out of Shittim as spies, saying, "Go, view the land, and Jericho." And the two young men went and came to Jericho and entered into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.
2 有人告诉耶利哥王说：“今夜有以色列人来到这里窥探此地。”
The king of Jericho was told, "Look, men of the children of Israel came in here to spy out the land."
3 耶利哥王打发人去见喇合说：“那来到你这里、进了你家的人要交出来，因为他们来窥探全地。”
The king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, "Bring out the men who came to you tonight; for they have come to spy out all the land."
4 女人将二人隐藏，就回答说：“那人果然到我这里来；他们是哪里来的我却不知道。
The woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said, "Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they came from.
5 天黑、要关城门的时候，他们出去了，往哪里去我却不知道。你们快快地去追赶，就必追上。”（
It happened about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out. Where the men went, I do not know. Pursue them quickly; for you will overtake them."
6 先是女人领二人上了房顶，将他们藏在那里所摆的麻秸中。）
But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on the roof.
7 那些人就往约旦河的渡口追赶他们去了。追赶他们的人一出去，城门就关了。
The men pursued them the way to the Jordan to the fords: and as soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.
8 二人还没有躺卧，女人就上房顶，到他们那里，
Before they had lain down, she came up to them on the roof;
9 对他们说：“我知道耶和华已经把这地赐给你们，并且因你们的缘故我们都惊慌了。这地的一切居民在你们面前心都消化了；
and she said to the men, "I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
10 因为我们听见你们出埃及的时候，耶和华怎样在你们前面使红海的水干了，并且你们怎样待约旦河东的两个亚摩利王西宏和噩，将他们尽行毁灭。
For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed.
11 我们一听见这些事，心就消化了。因你们的缘故，并无一人有胆气。耶和华—你们的 神本是上天下地的 神。
As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, neither did there remain any more spirit in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.
12 现在我既是恩待你们，求你们指着耶和华向我起誓，也要恩待我父家，并给我一个实在的证据，
Now therefore, please swear to me by the LORD, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a true token;
13 要救活我的父母、弟兄、姊妹，和一切属他们的，拯救我们性命不死。”
and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death."
14 二人对她说：“你若不泄漏我们这件事，我们情愿替你们死。耶和华将这地赐给我们的时候，我们必以慈爱诚实待你。”
The men said to her, "Our life for yours, even to death, if you do not talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when the LORD gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you."
15 于是女人用绳子将二人从窗户里缒下去；因她的房子是在城墙边上，她也住在城墙上。
Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.
16 她对他们说：“你们且往山上去，恐怕追赶的人碰见你们；要在那里隐藏三天，等追赶的人回来，然后才可以走你们的路。”
She said to them, "Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way."
17 二人对她说：“你要这样行。不然，你叫我们所起的誓就与我们无干了。
The men said to her, "We will be guiltless of this your oath which you have made us to swear.
18 我们来到这地的时候，你要把这条朱红线绳系在缒我们下去的窗户上，并要使你的父母、弟兄，和你父的全家都聚集在你家中。
Look, when we come into the land, you shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which you did let us down by. You shall gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father's household.
19 凡出了你家门往街上去的，他的罪必归到自己的头上，与我们无干了。凡在你家里的，若有人下手害他，流他血的罪就归到我们的头上。
It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.
20 你若泄漏我们这件事，你叫我们所起的誓就与我们无干了。”
But if you talk about this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you have made us to swear."
21 女人说：“照你们的话行吧！”于是打发他们去了，又把朱红线绳系在窗户上。
She said, "According to your words, so be it." She sent them away, and they departed. She tied the scarlet line in the window.
22 二人到山上，在那里住了三天，等着追赶的人回去了。追赶的人一路找他们，却找不着。
They went, and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had returned. The pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but did not find them.
23 二人就下山回来，过了河，到嫩的儿子约书亚那里，向他述说所遭遇的一切事；
Then the two men returned, descended from the mountain, passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun; and they told him all that had happened to them.
24 又对约书亚说：“耶和华果然将那全地交在我们手中；那地的一切居民在我们面前心都消化了。”
They said to Joshua, "Truly the LORD has delivered into our hands all the land. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us."
