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When Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not go, as at other times, to look for omens, but set his face toward the wilderness.
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And Balaam lifted up his eyes and saw Israel camping tribe by tribe. And the Spirit of God came upon him,
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and he took up his discourse and said, "The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened,
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the oracle of him who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down with his eyes uncovered:
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How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, your encampments, O Israel!
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Like palm groves that stretch afar, like gardens beside a river, like aloes that the LORD has planted, like cedar trees beside the waters.
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Water shall flow from his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters; his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
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God brings him out of Egypt and is for him like the horns of the wild ox; he shall eat up the nations, his adversaries, and shall break their bones in pieces and pierce them through with his arrows.
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He crouched, he lay down like a lion and like a lioness; who will rouse him up? Blessed are those who bless you, and cursed are those who curse you."
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And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together. And Balak said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them these three times.
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Therefore now flee to your own place. I said, 'I will certainly honor you,' but the LORD has held you back from honor."
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And Balaam said to Balak, "Did I not tell your messengers whom you sent to me,
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'If Balak should give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not be able to go beyond the word of the LORD, to do either good or bad of my own will. What the LORD speaks, that will I speak'?
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And now, behold, I am going to my people. Come, I will let you know what this people will do to your people in the latter days."
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And he took up his discourse and said, "The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened,
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the oracle of him who hears the words of God, and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down with his eyes uncovered:
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I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near: a star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel; it shall crush the forehead of Moab and break down all the sons of Sheth.
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Edom shall be dispossessed; Seir also, his enemies, shall be dispossessed. Israel is doing valiantly.
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And one from Jacob shall exercise dominion and destroy the survivors of cities!"
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Then he looked on Amalek and took up his discourse and said, "Amalek was the first among the nations, but its end is utter destruction."
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And he looked on the Kenite, and took up his discourse and said, "Enduring is your dwelling place, and your nest is set in the rock.
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Nevertheless, Kain shall be burned when Asshur takes you away captive."
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And he took up his discourse and said, "Alas, who shall live when God does this?
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But ships shall come from Kittim and shall afflict Asshur and Eber; and he too shall come to utter destruction."
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Then Balaam rose and went back to his place. And Balak also went his way.
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While Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to whore with the daughters of Moab.
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These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
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So Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
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And the LORD said to Moses, "Take all the chiefs of the people and hang them in the sun before the LORD, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel."
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And Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you kill those of his men who have yoked themselves to Baal of Peor."
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And behold, one of the people of Israel came and brought a Midianite woman to his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the people of Israel, while they were weeping in the entrance of the tent of meeting.
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When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation and took a spear in his hand
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and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the people of Israel was stopped.
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Nevertheless, those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
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And the LORD said to Moses,
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"Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy.
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Therefore say, 'Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace,
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and it shall be to him and to his descendants after him the covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the people of Israel.'"
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The name of the slain man of Israel, who was killed with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, chief of a father's house belonging to the Simeonites.
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And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, who was the tribal head of a father's house in Midian.
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And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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"Harass the Midianites and strike them down,
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for they have harassed you with their wiles, with which they beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the chief of Midian, their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague on account of Peor."
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Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
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(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples),
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he left Judea and departed again for Galilee.
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And he had to pass through Samaria.
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So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
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Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.
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There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."
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(For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.)
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The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
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Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
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The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?
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Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock."
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Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again,
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but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty forever. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
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The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water."
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Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."
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The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband';
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for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true."
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The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
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Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship."
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Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
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You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
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But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.
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God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."
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The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things."
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Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am he."
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Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, "What do you seek?" or, "Why are you talking with her?"
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So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people,
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"Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?"
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They went out of the town and were coming to him.
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Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."
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But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about."
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So the disciples said to one another, "Has anyone brought him something to eat?"
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Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
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Do you not say, 'There are yet four months, then comes the harvest'? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest.
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Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.
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For here the saying holds true, 'One sows and another reaps.'
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I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."
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Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me all that I ever did."
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So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.
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And many more believed because of his word.
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They said to the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world."
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After the two days he departed for Galilee.
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(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.)
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So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone to the feast.
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So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill.
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When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
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So Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe."
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The official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."
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Jesus said to him, "Go; your son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way.
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As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering.
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So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him."
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The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live." And he himself believed, and all his household.
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This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.
