1. Then Jacob went on his journey and came to the land of the people of the east. 2. As he looked, he saw a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep lying beside it, for out of that well the flocks were watered. The stone on the well's mouth was large, 3. and when all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place over the mouth of the well. 4. Jacob said to them, "My brothers, where do you come from?" They said, "We are from Haran." 5. He said to them, "Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him." 6. He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well; and see, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep!" 7. He said, "Behold, it is still high day; it is not time for the livestock to be gathered together. Water the sheep and go, pasture them." 8. But they said, "We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together and the stone is rolled from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep." 9. While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess. 10. Now as soon as Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the well's mouth and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. 11. Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud. 12. And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's kinsman, and that he was Rebekah's son, and she ran and told her father. 13. As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister's son, he ran to meet him and embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things, 14. and Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh!" And he stayed with him a month.
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1. To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. Of Asaph.Sing aloud to God our strength;shout for joy to the God of Jacob! 2. Raise a song; sound the tambourine,the sweet lyre with the harp. 3. Blow the trumpet at the new moon,at the full moon, on our feast day. 4. For it is a statute for Israel,a rule of the God of Jacob. 5. He made it a decree in Josephwhen he went out over the land of Egypt.I hear a language I had not known: 6. "I relieved your shoulder of the burden;your hands were freed from the basket. 7. In distress you called, and I delivered you;I answered you in the secret place of thunder;I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah 8. Hear, O my people, while I admonish you!O Israel, if you would but listen to me! 9. There shall be no strange god among you;you shall not bow down to a foreign god. 10. I am the Lord your God,who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. 11. "But my people did not listen to my voice;Israel would not submit to me. 12. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,to follow their own counsels. 13. Oh, that my people would listen to me,that Israel would walk in my ways! 14. I would soon subdue their enemiesand turn my hand against their foes. 15. Those who hate the Lord would cringe toward him,and their fate would last forever. 16. But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat,and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."
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7. A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." 8. (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 9. 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.) 10. 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." 11. 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? 12. Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock." 13. Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14. but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." 15. 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." 16. Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here." 17. The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband'; 18. for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true." 19. The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship." 21. Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23. 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. 24. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." 25. 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." 26. Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am he." 27. 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?" 28. So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, 29. "Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?" 30. They went out of the town and were coming to him. 31. Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, "Rabbi, eat." 32. But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about." 33. So the disciples said to one another, "Has anyone brought him something to eat?" 34. Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. 35. 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. 36. Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37. For here the saying holds true, 'One sows and another reaps.' 38. I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor." 39. Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me all that I ever did." 40. So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 41. And many more believed because of his word. 42. 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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27. On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they found none. 28. And the Lord said to Moses, "How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws? 29. See! The Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Remain each of you in his place; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day." 30. So the people rested on the seventh day. 31. Now the house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. 32. Moses said, "This is what the Lord has commanded: 'Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.'" 33. And Moses said to Aaron, "Take a jar, and put an omer of manna in it, and place it before the Lord to be kept throughout your generations." 34. As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the testimony to be kept. 35. The people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land. They ate the manna till they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
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11. Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands-- 12. remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15. by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, 16. and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. 17. And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. 18. For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20. built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21. in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
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1. but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2. Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. 3. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst 4. they said to him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. 5. Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?" 6. This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. 7. And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her." 8. And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. 9. But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. 10. Jesus stood up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" 11. She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more."]]
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17. "For behold, I create new heavensand a new earth,and the former things shall not be rememberedor come into mind. 18. But be glad and rejoice foreverin that which I create;for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy,and her people to be a gladness. 19. I will rejoice in Jerusalemand be glad in my people;no more shall be heard in it the sound of weepingand the cry of distress. 20. No more shall there be in itan infant who lives but a few days,or an old man who does not fill out his days,for the young man shall die a hundred years old,and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed. 21. They shall build houses and inhabit them;they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 22. They shall not build and another inhabit;they shall not plant and another eat;for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands. 23. They shall not labor in vainor bear children for calamity,for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord,and their descendants with them. 24. Before they call I will answer;while they are yet speaking I will hear. 25. The wolf and the lamb shall graze together;the lion shall eat straw like the ox,and dust shall be the serpent's food.They shall not hurt or destroyin all my holy mountain,"says the Lord.
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4. From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way. 5. And the people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food." 6. Then the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. 7. And the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people. 8. And the Lord said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live." 9. So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.
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1. Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him." 3. Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." 4. Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?" 5. Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7. Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.' 8. The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit." 9. Nicodemus said to him, "How can these things be?" 10. Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things? 11. Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony. 12. If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13. No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. 14. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15. that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. 16. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
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