Exodus 24

• 1. Then he said to Moses, "Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. You are to worship at a distance,
• 2. but Moses alone is to approach the LORD; the others must not come near. And the people may not come up with him."
• 3. When Moses went and told the people all the LORD's words and laws, they responded with one voice, "Everything the LORD has said we will do."
• 4. Moses then wrote down everything the LORD had said. He got up early the next morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve stone pillars representing the twelve tribes of Israel.
• 5. Then he sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as fellowship offerings to the LORD.
• 6. Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he sprinkled on the altar.
• 7. Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded, "We will do everything the LORD has said; we will obey."
• 8. Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words."
• 9. Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up
• 10. and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of sapphire, clear as the sky itself.
• 11. But God did not raise his hand against these leaders of the Israelites; they saw God, and they ate and drank.
• 12. The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commands I have written for their instruction."
• 13. Then Moses set out with Joshua his aide, and Moses went up on the mountain of God.
• 14. He said to the elders, "Wait here for us until we come back to you. Aaron and Hur are with you, and anyone involved in a dispute can go to them."
• 15. When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it,
• 16. and the glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered the mountain, and on the seventh day the LORD called to Moses from within the cloud.
• 17. To the Israelites the glory of the LORD looked like a consuming fire on top of the mountain.
• 18. Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

John 4

• 1. The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John,
• 2. although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples.
• 3. When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
• 4. Now he had to go through Samaria.
• 5. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
• 6. Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
• 7. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?"
• 8. (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
• 9. The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. )
• 10. Jesus answered her, "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."
• 11. "Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?
• 12. Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?"
• 13. Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,
• 14. but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I 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 won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water."
• 16. He told her, "Go, call your husband and come back."
• 17. "I have no husband," she replied.
• 18. Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband. 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."
• 19. "Sir," the woman said, "I can see that you are a prophet.
• 20. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem."
• 21. Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
• 22. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
• 23. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
• 24. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."
• 25. The woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us."
• 26. Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am he."
• 27. Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"
• 28. Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people,
• 29. "Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?"
• 30. They came out of the town and made their way toward him.
• 31. Meanwhile his disciples urged him, "Rabbi, eat something."
• 32. But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about."
• 33. Then his disciples said to each other, "Could someone have brought him food?"
• 34. "My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
• 35. Do you not say, 'Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.
• 36. Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.
• 37. Thus the saying 'One sows and another reaps' is true.
• 38. 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."
• 39. Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did."
• 40. So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days.
• 41. And because of his words many more became believers.
• 42. They said to the woman, "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."
• 43. After the two days he left for Galilee.
• 44. (Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)
• 45. When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, for they also had been there.
• 46. 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.
• 47. 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.
• 48. "Unless you people see miraculous signs and wonders," Jesus told him, "you will never believe."
• 49. The royal official said, "Sir, come down before my child dies."
• 50. Jesus replied, "You may go. Your son will live." The man took Jesus at his word and departed.
• 51. While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living.
• 52. When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, "The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour."
• 53. Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live." So he and all his household believed.
• 54. This was the second miraculous sign that Jesus performed, having come from Judea to Galilee.

Proverbs 1

• 1. The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:
• 2. for attaining wisdom and discipline; for understanding words of insight;
• 3. for acquiring a disciplined and prudent life, doing what is right and just and fair;
• 4. for giving prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young-
• 5. let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance-
• 6. for understanding proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.
• 7. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
• 8. Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
• 9. They will be a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.
• 10. My son, if sinners entice you, do not give in to them.
• 11. If they say, "Come along with us; let's lie in wait for someone's blood, let's waylay some harmless soul;
• 12. let's swallow them alive, like the grave, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;
• 13. we will get all sorts of valuable things and fill our houses with plunder;
• 14. throw in your lot with us, and we will share a common purse"-
• 15. my son, do not go along with them, do not set foot on their paths;
• 16. for their feet rush into sin, they are swift to shed blood.
• 17. How useless to spread a net in full view of all the birds!
• 18. These men lie in wait for their own blood; they waylay only themselves!
• 19. Such is the end of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the lives of those who get it.
• 20. Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the public squares;
• 21. at the head of the noisy streets she cries out, in the gateways of the city she makes her speech:
• 22. "How long will you simple ones love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
• 23. If you had responded to my rebuke, I would have poured out my heart to you and made my thoughts known to you.
• 24. But since you rejected me when I called and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand,
• 25. since you ignored all my advice and would not accept my rebuke,
• 26. I in turn will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you-
• 27. when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you.
• 28. "Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me.
• 29. Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the LORD,
• 30. since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke,
• 31. they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.
• 32. For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them;
• 33. but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm."

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