⁵ At dusk, when it was time to close the city gate,^(A) they left. I don’t know which way they went. Go after them quickly. You may catch up with them.”^(B)

⁷ So the men set out in pursuit of the spies on the road that leads to the fords of the Jordan,^(A) and as soon as the pursuers^(B) had gone out, the gate was shut.