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         <div class="label">31</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Vengeance on the Midianites</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.31.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.31.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.31.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.31.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So Moses said to the people, &#8220;Arm some of your men to go to war against the Midianites so that they may carry out the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s vengeance on them. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.31.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Send into battle a thousand men from each of the tribes of Israel.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.31.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So twelve thousand men armed for battle, a thousand from each tribe, were supplied from the clans of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.31.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Moses sent them into battle, a thousand from each tribe, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, who took with him articles from the sanctuary and the trumpets for signaling.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.31.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.31.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They fought against Midian, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses, and killed every man. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.31.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Among their victims were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba&#8212;the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.31.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The Israelites captured the Midianite women and children and took all the Midianite herds, flocks and goods as plunder. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.31.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They burned all the towns where the Midianites had settled, as well as all their camps. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.31.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They took all the plunder and spoils, including the people and animals, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.31.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">and brought the captives, spoils and plunder to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the Israelite assembly at their camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.31.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.31.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Moses, Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.31.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Moses was angry with the officers of the army&#8212;the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds&#8212;who returned from the battle.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.31.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.31.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Have you allowed all the women to live?&#8221; he asked them. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.31.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;They were the ones who followed Balaam&#8217;s advice and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in the Peor incident, so that a plague struck the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s people. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.31.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.31.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.31.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.31.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone who has killed someone or touched someone who was killed must stay outside the camp seven days. On the third and seventh days you must purify yourselves and your captives. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.31.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Purify every garment as well as everything made of leather, goat hair or wood.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.31.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.31.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone into battle, &#8220;This is what is required by the law that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave Moses: </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.31.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, lead </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.31.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">and anything else that can withstand fire must be put through the fire, and then it will be clean. But it must also be purified with the water of cleansing. And whatever cannot withstand fire must be put through that water. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.31.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">On the seventh day wash your clothes and you will be clean. Then you may come into the camp.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Dividing the Spoils</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.31.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.31.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.31.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;You and Eleazar the priest and the family heads of the community are to count all the people and animals that were captured. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.31.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Divide the spoils equally between the soldiers who took part in the battle and the rest of the community. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.31.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">From the soldiers who fought in the battle, set apart as tribute for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> one out of every five hundred, whether people, cattle, donkeys or sheep. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.31.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Take this tribute from their half share and give it to Eleazar the priest as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s part. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.31.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">From the Israelites&#8217; half, select one out of every fifty, whether people, cattle, donkeys, sheep or other animals. Give them to the Levites, who are responsible for the care of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s tabernacle.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.31.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.31.31"></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NUM.31.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The plunder remaining from the spoils that the soldiers took was 675,000 sheep, </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NUM.31.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">72,000 cattle, </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="NUM.31.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">61,000 donkeys </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="NUM.31.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">and 32,000 women who had never slept with a man.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="NUM.31.35"></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="NUM.31.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">The half share of those who fought in the battle was:</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="NUM.31.36"></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="NUM.31.36"><span class="content">337,500 sheep, </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="NUM.31.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">of which the tribute for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was 675;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="NUM.31.37"></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="NUM.31.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">36,000 cattle, of which the tribute for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was 72;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="NUM.31.38"></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="NUM.31.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">30,500 donkeys, of which the tribute for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was 61;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="NUM.31.39"></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="NUM.31.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">16,000 people, of whom the tribute for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was 32.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="NUM.31.40"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="NUM.31.40"></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="NUM.31.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Moses gave the tribute to Eleazar the priest as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s part, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="NUM.31.41"></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="NUM.31.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">The half belonging to the Israelites, which Moses set apart from that of the fighting men&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="NUM.31.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">the community&#8217;s half&#8212;was 337,500 sheep, </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="NUM.31.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">36,000 cattle, </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="NUM.31.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">30,500 donkeys </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="NUM.31.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">and 16,000 people. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="NUM.31.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">From the Israelites&#8217; half, Moses selected one out of every fifty people and animals, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded him, and gave them to the Levites, who were responsible for the care of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s tabernacle.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="NUM.31.47"></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="NUM.31.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">Then the officers who were over the units of the army&#8212;the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds&#8212;went to Moses </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="NUM.31.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">and said to him, &#8220;Your servants have counted the soldiers under our command, and not one is missing. </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="NUM.31.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">So we have brought as an offering to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> the gold articles each of us acquired&#8212;armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings and necklaces&#8212;to make atonement for ourselves before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="NUM.31.50"></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="NUM.31.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">Moses and Eleazar the priest accepted from them the gold&#8212;all the crafted articles. </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="NUM.31.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">All the gold from the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds that Moses and Eleazar presented as a gift to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> weighed 16,750 shekels.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">31:52 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 420 pounds or about 190 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="NUM.31.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">Each soldier had taken plunder for himself. </span></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="NUM.31.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">Moses and Eleazar the priest accepted the gold from the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A good name is more desirable than great riches;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.22.1"><span class="content">to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.22.1"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.22.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Rich and poor have this in common:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.22.2"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is the Maker of them all.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.22.2"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.22.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The prudent see danger and take refuge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.22.3"><span class="content">but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.22.3"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.22.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Humility is the fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.22.4"><span class="content">its wages are riches and honor and life.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.22.4"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.22.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">In the paths of the wicked are snares and pitfalls,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.22.5"><span class="content">but those who would preserve their life stay far from them.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.22.5"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.22.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Start children off on the way they should go,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.22.6"><span class="content">and even when they are old they will not turn from it.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.22.6"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.22.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The rich rule over the poor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.22.7"><span class="content">and the borrower is slave to the lender.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.22.7"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.22.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Whoever sows injustice reaps calamity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.22.8"><span class="content">and the rod they wield in fury will be broken.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.22.8"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.22.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The generous will themselves be blessed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.22.9"><span class="content">for they share their food with the poor.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.22.9"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.22.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.22.10"><span class="content">quarrels and insults are ended.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.22.10"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.22.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">One who loves a pure heart and who speaks with grace</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.22.11"><span class="content">will have the king for a friend.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.22.11"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.22.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> keep watch over knowledge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.22.12"><span class="content">but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.22.12"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.22.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The sluggard says, &#8220;There&#8217;s a lion outside!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.22.13"><span class="content">I&#8217;ll be killed in the public square!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.22.13"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.22.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.22.14"><span class="content">a man who is under the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s wrath falls into it.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.22.14"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.22.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.22.15"><span class="content">but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.22.15"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.22.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">One who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.22.16"><span class="content">and one who gives gifts to the rich&#8212;both come to poverty.</span></span></div><div class="ms1"><span class="heading">Thirty Sayings of the Wise</span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 1</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.22.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Pay attention and turn your ear to the sayings of the wise;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.22.17"><span class="content">apply your heart to what I teach,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.22.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.22.18"><span class="content">and have all of them ready on your lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.22.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">So that your trust may be in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.22.19"><span class="content">I teach you today, even you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.22.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Have I not written thirty sayings for you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.22.20"><span class="content">sayings of counsel and knowledge,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.22.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">teaching you to be honest and to speak the truth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.22.21"><span class="content">so that you bring back truthful reports</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.22.21"><span class="content">to those you serve?</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 2</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.22.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Do not exploit the poor because they are poor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.22.22"><span class="content">and do not crush the needy in court,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.22.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will take up their case</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.22.23"><span class="content">and will exact life for life.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 3</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.22.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.22.24"><span class="content">do not associate with one easily angered,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.22.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">or you may learn their ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.22.25"><span class="content">and get yourself ensnared.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 4</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.22.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.22.26"><span class="content">or puts up security for debts;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.22.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">if you lack the means to pay,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.22.27"><span class="content">your very bed will be snatched from under you.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 5</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.22.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Do not move an ancient boundary stone</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.22.28"><span class="content">set up by your ancestors.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Saying 6</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.22.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Do you see someone skilled in their work?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.22.29"><span class="content">They will serve before kings;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.22.29"><span class="content">they will not serve before officials of low rank.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.4.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Now he had to go through Samaria. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Jacob&#8217;s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.4.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Will you give me a drink?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.4.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The Samaritan woman said to him, &#8220;You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?&#8221; (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">do not use dishes Samaritans have used</span></span></span><span class="content">)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.4.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Jesus answered her, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.4.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Sir,&#8221; the woman said, &#8220;you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.4.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.4.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The woman said to him, &#8220;Sir, give me this water so that I won&#8217;t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.4.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He told her, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Go, call your husband and come back.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.4.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have no husband,&#8221; she replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.4.17"><span class="content">Jesus said to her, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You are right when you say you have no husband.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.4.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Sir,&#8221; the woman said, &#8220;I can see that you are a prophet. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.4.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Woman,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.4.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The woman said, &#8220;I know that Messiah&#8221; (called Christ) &#8220;is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.4.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.4.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Then Jesus declared, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I, the one speaking to you&#8212;I am he.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Disciples Rejoin Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.4.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.4.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, &#8220;What do you want?&#8221; or &#8220;Why are you talking with her?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.4.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.4.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.4.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.4.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">They came out of the town and made their way toward him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.4.30"></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.4.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Meanwhile his disciples urged him, &#8220;Rabbi, eat something.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.4.31"></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.4.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">But he said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I have food to eat that you know nothing about.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.4.32"></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.4.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Then his disciples said to each other, &#8220;Could someone have brought him food?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.4.33"></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JHN.4.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;My food,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> said Jesus, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JHN.4.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Don&#8217;t you have a saying, &#8216;It&#8217;s still four months until harvest&#8217;? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.4.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JHN.4.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Thus the saying &#8216;One sows and another reaps&#8217; is true.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JHN.4.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Many Samaritans Believe</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JHN.4.38"></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JHN.4.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman&#8217;s testimony, &#8220;He told me everything I ever did.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JHN.4.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JHN.4.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">And because of his words many more became believers.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JHN.4.41"></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JHN.4.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">They said to the woman, &#8220;We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Heals an Official&#8217;s Son</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JHN.4.42"></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="JHN.4.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">After the two days he left for Galilee. </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="JHN.4.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">(Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="JHN.4.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, for they also had been there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="JHN.4.45"></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="JHN.4.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="JHN.4.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="JHN.4.47"></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="JHN.4.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Unless you people see signs and wonders,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus told him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;you will never believe.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="JHN.4.48"></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="JHN.4.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">The royal official said, &#8220;Sir, come down before my child dies.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="JHN.4.49"></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="JHN.4.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Go,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;your son will live.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="JHN.4.50"><span class="content">The man took Jesus at his word and departed. </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="JHN.4.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="JHN.4.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, &#8220;Yesterday, at one in the afternoon, the fever left him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="JHN.4.52"></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="JHN.4.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Your son will live.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> So he and his whole household believed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="JHN.4.53"></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="JHN.4.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">This was the second sign Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.</span></span></div>
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