14 At that the men said to her: “Our souls are to die instead of YOU people!+ If YOU will not tell about this matter of ours, it must also occur that when Jehovah gives us the land, we also shall certainly exercise loving-kindness and trustworthiness* toward you.”+

20 And if you should report this matter of ours,+ we shall also have become free from guilt respecting this oath of yours that you have made us swear.”

27 In time all the princes came in to Jeremiah and began questioning him. In turn, he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded.+ So they became silent before him, for the matter was not heard.

19 However, Joseph her husband, because he was righteous and did not want to make her a public spectacle,+ intended to divorce*+ her secretly.