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But as for the two Israelitish spies, they hid themselves, according to Rahab's advice,
for three days among the limestone caves and grottoes which abound in Mount
Quarantania, while their pursuers vainly searched for them in the opposite direction of
the fords of Jordan. When the fruitless pursuit had ceased, they made their way back to
Joshua, expressing to him their conviction, as the result of their mission: "Truly
Jehovah hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the
country do faint because of us."
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