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And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
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And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him.
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And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
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He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
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How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!
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As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
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He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
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God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
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He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
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And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times.
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Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the LORD hath kept thee back from honour.
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And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying,
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If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD saith, that will I speak?
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And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.
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And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
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He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
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I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
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And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.
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Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.
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And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.
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And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.
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Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
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And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this!
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And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.
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And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went his way.
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And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
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And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
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And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
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And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
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And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.
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And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
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And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;
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And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
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And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
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Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
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And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
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Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.
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And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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Vex the Midianites, and smite them:
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For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake.
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When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,
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Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)
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He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.
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And he must needs go through Samaria.
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Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
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Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
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There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
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For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
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Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
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Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
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The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
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Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
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Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
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But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
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The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
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Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
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The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
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For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
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The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
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Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
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Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
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Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
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But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
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God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
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The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
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Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
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And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?
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The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,
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Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
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Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
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In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.
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But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
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Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?
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Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
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Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
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And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
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And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
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I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
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And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
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So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
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And many more believed because of his own word;
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And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
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Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.
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For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.
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Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.
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So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.
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When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.
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Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.
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The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.
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Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.
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And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth.
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Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
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So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house.
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This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea into Galilee.
