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They must make full restitution for the wrong they have done, add a fifth of the value to it and give it all to the person they have wronged. 8But if that person has no close relative to whom restitution can be made for the wrong, the restitution belongs to the Lord and must be given to the priest, along with the ram with which atonement is made for the wrongdoer. 9All the sacred contributions the Israelites bring to a priest will belong to him. 10Sacred things belong to their owners, but what they give to the priest will belong to the priest.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</div><div class="s1">The Test for an Unfaithful Wife</div><div class="p"> 11Then the Lord said to Moses, 12&#8220;Speak to the Israelites and say to them: &#8216;If a man&#8217;s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him 13so that another man has sexual relations with her, and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act), 14and if feelings of jealousy come over her husband and he suspects his wife and she is impure&#8212;or if he is jealous and suspects her even though she is not impure&#8212; 15then he is to take his wife to the priest. He must also take an offering of a tenth of an ephah#5:15 That is, probably about 3 1/2 pounds or about 1.6 kilograms of barley flour on her behalf. He must not pour olive oil on it or put incense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a reminder-offering to draw attention to wrongdoing.</div><div class="p"> 16&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The priest shall bring her and have her stand before the Lord. 17Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water. 18After the priest has had the woman stand before the Lord, he shall loosen her hair and place in her hands the reminder-offering, the grain offering for jealousy, while he himself holds the bitter water that brings a curse. 19Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, &#8220;If no other man has had sexual relations with you and you have not gone astray and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse not harm you. 20But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband&#8221;&#8212; 21here the priest is to put the woman under this curse&#8212;&#8220;may the Lord cause you to become a curse#5:21 That is, may he cause your name to be used in cursing (see Jer. 29:22); or, may others see that you are cursed; similarly in verse 27. among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell. 22May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.&#8221;</div><div class="p">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Then the woman is to say, &#8220;Amen. So be it.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 23&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water. 24He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering will enter her. 25The priest is to take from her hands the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the Lord and bring it to the altar. 26The priest is then to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial#5:26 Or representative offering and burn it on the altar; after that, he is to have the woman drink the water. 27If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse. 28If, however, the woman has not made herself impure, but is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to have children.</div><div class="p"> 29&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;This, then, is the law of jealousy when a woman goes astray and makes herself impure while married to her husband, 30or when feelings of jealousy come over a man because he suspects his wife. The priest is to have her stand before the Lord and is to apply this entire law to her. 31The husband will be innocent of any wrongdoing, but the woman will bear the consequences of her sin.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</div>
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 <div class="label">60</div><div class="cl">Psalm 60#In Hebrew texts 60:1-12 is numbered 60:3-14.</div><div class="d">For the director of music. To the tune of &#8220;The Lily of the Covenant.&#8221; A miktam#Title: Probably a literary or musical term of David. For teaching. When he fought Aram Naharaim#Title: That is, Arameans of Northwest Mesopotamia and Aram Zobah,#Title: That is, Arameans of central Syria and when Joab returned and struck down twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.</div><div class="q1"> 1You have rejected us, God, and burst upon us;</div><div class="q2">you have been angry&#8212;now restore us!</div><div class="q1"> 2You have shaken the land and torn it open;</div><div class="q2">mend its fractures, for it is quaking.</div><div class="q1"> 3You have shown your people desperate times;</div><div class="q2">you have given us wine that makes us stagger.</div><div class="q1"> 4But for those who fear you, you have raised a banner</div><div class="q2">to be unfurled against the bow.#60:4 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 5Save us and help us with your right hand,</div><div class="q2">that those you love may be delivered.</div><div class="q1"> 6God has spoken from his sanctuary:</div><div class="q2">&#8220;In triumph I will parcel out Shechem</div><div class="q2">and measure off the Valley of Sukkoth.</div><div class="q1"> 7Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine;</div><div class="q2">Ephraim is my helmet,</div><div class="q2">Judah is my scepter.</div><div class="q1"> 8Moab is my washbasin,</div><div class="q2">on Edom I toss my sandal;</div><div class="q2">over Philistia I shout in triumph.&#8221;</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 9Who will bring me to the fortified city?</div><div class="q2">Who will lead me to Edom?</div><div class="q1"> 10Is it not you, God, you who have now rejected us</div><div class="q2">and no longer go out with our armies?</div><div class="q1"> 11Give us aid against the enemy,</div><div class="q2">for human help is worthless.</div><div class="q1"> 12With God we will gain the victory,</div><div class="q2">and he will trample down our enemies.</div>
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 <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1">Warning Against the Adulterous Woman</div><div class="q1"> 1My son, keep my words</div><div class="q2">and store up my commands within you.</div><div class="q1"> 2Keep my commands and you will live;</div><div class="q2">guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.</div><div class="q1"> 3Bind them on your fingers;</div><div class="q2">write them on the tablet of your heart.</div><div class="q1"> 4Say to wisdom, &#8220;You are my sister,&#8221;</div><div class="q2">and to insight, &#8220;You are my relative.&#8221;</div><div class="q1"> 5They will keep you from the adulterous woman,</div><div class="q2">from the wayward woman with her seductive words.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 6At the window of my house</div><div class="q2">I looked down through the lattice.</div><div class="q1"> 7I saw among the simple,</div><div class="q2">I noticed among the young men,</div><div class="q2">a youth who had no sense.</div><div class="q1"> 8He was going down the street near her corner,</div><div class="q2">walking along in the direction of her house</div><div class="q1"> 9at twilight, as the day was fading,</div><div class="q2">as the dark of night set in.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 10Then out came a woman to meet him,</div><div class="q2">dressed like a prostitute and with crafty intent.</div><div class="q1"> 11(She is unruly and defiant,</div><div class="q2">her feet never stay at home;</div><div class="q1"> 12now in the street, now in the squares,</div><div class="q2">at every corner she lurks.)</div><div class="q1"> 13She took hold of him and kissed him</div><div class="q2">and with a brazen face she said:</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 14&#8220;Today I fulfilled my vows,</div><div class="q2">and I have food from my fellowship offering at home.</div><div class="q1"> 15So I came out to meet you;</div><div class="q2">I looked for you and have found you!</div><div class="q1"> 16I have covered my bed</div><div class="q2">with colored linens from Egypt.</div><div class="q1"> 17I have perfumed my bed</div><div class="q2">with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.</div><div class="q1"> 18Come, let&#8217;s drink deeply of love till morning;</div><div class="q2">let&#8217;s enjoy ourselves with love!</div><div class="q1"> 19My husband is not at home;</div><div class="q2">he has gone on a long journey.</div><div class="q1"> 20He took his purse filled with money</div><div class="q2">and will not be home till full moon.&#8221;</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 21With persuasive words she led him astray;</div><div class="q2">she seduced him with her smooth talk.</div><div class="q1"> 22All at once he followed her</div><div class="q2">like an ox going to the slaughter,</div><div class="q1">like a deer#7:22 Syriac (see also Septuagint); Hebrew fool stepping into a noose#7:22 The meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.</div><div class="q2"> 23till an arrow pierces his liver,</div><div class="q1">like a bird darting into a snare,</div><div class="q2">little knowing it will cost him his life.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 24Now then, my sons, listen to me;</div><div class="q2">pay attention to what I say.</div><div class="q1"> 25Do not let your heart turn to her ways</div><div class="q2">or stray into her paths.</div><div class="q1"> 26Many are the victims she has brought down;</div><div class="q2">her slain are a mighty throng.</div><div class="q1"> 27Her house is a highway to the grave,</div><div class="q2">leading down to the chambers of death.</div>
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 <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1">Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman</div><div class="p"> 1Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John&#8212; 2although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.</div><div class="p"> 4Now he had to go through Samaria. 5So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6Jacob&#8217;s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.</div><div class="p"> 7When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, &#8220;Will you give me a drink?&#8221; 8(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)</div><div class="p"> 9The 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.#4:9 Or do not use dishes Samaritans have used)</div><div class="p"> 10Jesus answered her, &#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;</div><div class="p"> 11&#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? 12Are 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;</div><div class="p"> 13Jesus answered, &#8220;Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14but 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;</div><div class="p"> 15The 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;</div><div class="p"> 16He told her, &#8220;Go, call your husband and come back.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 17&#8220;I have no husband,&#8221; she replied.</div><div class="p">Jesus said to her, &#8220;You are right when you say you have no husband. 18The 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;</div><div class="p"> 19&#8220;Sir,&#8221; the woman said, &#8220;I can see that you are a prophet. 20Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 21 &#8220;Woman,&#8221; Jesus replied, &#8220;believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23Yet 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. 24God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 25The woman said, &#8220;I know that Messiah&#8221; (called Christ) &#8220;is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 26Then Jesus declared, &#8220;I, the one speaking to you&#8212;I am he.&#8221;</div><div class="s1">The Disciples Rejoin Jesus</div><div class="p"> 27Just 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;</div><div class="p"> 28Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 29&#8220;Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?&#8221; 30They came out of the town and made their way toward him.</div><div class="p"> 31Meanwhile his disciples urged him, &#8220;Rabbi, eat something.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 32But he said to them, &#8220;I have food to eat that you know nothing about.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 33Then his disciples said to each other, &#8220;Could someone have brought him food?&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 34 &#8220;My food,&#8221; said Jesus, &#8220;is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 35Don&#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. 36Even 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. 37Thus the saying &#8216;One sows and another reaps&#8217; is true. 38I 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;</div><div class="s1">Many Samaritans Believe</div><div class="p"> 39Many 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; 40So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. 41And because of his words many more became believers.</div><div class="p"> 42They 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;</div><div class="s1">Jesus Heals an Official&#8217;s Son</div><div class="p"> 43After the two days he left for Galilee. 44(Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) 45When 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.</div><div class="p"> 46Once 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. 47When 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.</div><div class="p"> 48 &#8220;Unless you people see signs and wonders,&#8221; Jesus told him, &#8220;you will never believe.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 49The royal official said, &#8220;Sir, come down before my child dies.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 50 &#8220;Go,&#8221; Jesus replied, &#8220;your son will live.&#8221;</div><div class="p">The man took Jesus at his word and departed. 51While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. 52When 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;</div><div class="p"> 53Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, &#8220;Your son will live.&#8221; So he and his whole household believed.</div><div class="p"> 54This was the second sign Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.</div>
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