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Joshua 2:8

Joshua 2:8 is verse 8 of Joshua chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Before the spies lay down for the night, Rahab went up on the roof

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King James Version

And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;

World English Bible

Before they had lain down, she came up to them on the roof.

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Joshua 2:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 (But Rahab had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had laid out there.)

7 So the king’s men set out in pursuit of the spies along the road to the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as they had gone out, the gate was shut.

8 Before the spies lay down for the night, Rahab went up on the roof

9 and said to them, “I know that the LORD has given you this land and that the fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who dwell in the land are melting in fear of you.

10 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites across the Jordan, whom you devoted to destruction.

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