Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was on the city wall, so that she was living on the wall.

unless, when we come into the land, you tie this cord of scarlet thread in the window through which you let us down, and gather to yourself into the house your father and your mother and your brothers and all your father’s household.

She said, “According to your words, so be it.” So she sent them away, and they departed; and she tied the scarlet cord in the window.