22 5 King Balak sendeth for Balaam to curse the Israelites. 12 The Lord forbiddeth him to go. 22 The Angel of the Lord meeteth him, and his ass speaketh. 38 Balaam protesteth that he will speak nothing, but that which the Lord putteth in his mouth.

¹ After, the children of Israel departed and pitched in the plain of Moab on the ^[a]other side of Jordan from Jericho.

² ¶ Now Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.

³ And the Moabites were sore afraid of the people, because they were many, and Moab ^[b]fretted against the children of Israel.

⁴ Therefore Moab said unto the ^[c]Elders of Midian, Now shall this multitude lick up all that are round about us, as an ox licketh up the grass of the field: and Balak the son of Zippor was King of the Moabites at that time.

^5 (A)He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor (which is by the ^[d]river of the land of the children of his folk) to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which cover the face of the earth, and lie over against me.

⁶ Come now therefore, I pray thee, and curse me this people (for they are stronger than I) so it may be that I shall be able to smite them, and to drive them out of the land: for I know that he, whom thou blessest, is blessed, and he whom thou cursest, shall be cursed.

⁷ And the Elders of Moab, and the Elders of Midian departed, having ^[e]the reward of the soothsaying in their hand, and they came unto Balaam, and told him the words of Balak.

⁸ Who answered them, Tarry here this night, and I will give you an answer, as the Lord shall say unto me. So ^[f]the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.

⁹ Then God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with thee?

¹⁰ And Baalam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor king of Moab hath sent unto me, saying,

¹¹ Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, and covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse them for my sake: so it may be that I shall be able to overcome them in battle, and to drive them out.

¹² And God ^[g]said unto Balaam, Go not thou with them, neither curse the people, for they are blessed.

¹³ And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Return unto your land: for the Lord hath refused to give ^[h]me leave to go with you.

¹⁴ So the princes of Moab rose up, and went unto Balak, and said, Balaam hath refused to come with us.

¹⁵ Balak yet sent again more princes, and more honorable than they,

¹⁶ Who came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, ^[i]Be not thou stayed, I pray thee, from coming unto me.

¹⁷ For I will promote thee unto great honor, and will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.

¹⁸ And Balaam answered, and said unto the servants of Balak, ^(B)If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more.

¹⁹ But now, I pray you, tarry here this night, that I may wit, what the Lord will say unto me ^[j]more.

²⁰ And God came unto Balaam by night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them: but only what thing I say unto thee, that shalt thou do.

²¹ So Balaam rose up early, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.

²² And the wrath of God was kindled, because he ^[k]went: and the Angel of the Lord stood in the way to be against him, as he rode upon his ass, and his two servants were with him.

²³ And ^(C)when the ass saw the Angel of the Lord stand in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand, the ass turned out of the way, and went into the field, but Balaam smote the ass to turn her into the way.

^24 [l]Again the Angel of the Lord stood in a path of the vineyards, having a wall on the one side, and a wall on the other.

²⁵ And when the ass saw the Angel of the Lord, she thrust herself unto the wall, and dashed Balaam’s foot against the wall: wherefore he smote her again.

²⁶ Then the Angel of the Lord went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn, either to the right hand, or to the left.

²⁷ And when the ass saw the Angel of the Lord, she ^[m]lay down under Balaam: therefore Balaam was very wroth, and smote the ass with a staff.

²⁸ Then the Lord ^[n]opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me now three times?

²⁹ And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.

³⁰ And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, which thou hast ridden upon ^[o]since thy first time unto this day? have I used at any time, to do thus unto thee? Who said, Nay.

³¹ And the Lord ^[p]opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the Angel of the Lord standing in the way with his sword drawn in his hand: then he bowed himself, and fell flat on his face.

³² And the Angel of the Lord said unto him, Wherefore hast thou now smitten thine ass three times? behold, I came out to withstand thee, because thy ^[q]way is not straight before me.

³³ But the ass saw me, and turned from me now three times: for else, if she had not turned from me, surely I had even now slain thee, and saved her alive.

³⁴ Then Balaam said unto the Angel of the Lord, I have sinned: for I wist not that thou stoodest in the way ^[r]against me: now therefore if it displease thee, I will turn ^[s]home again.

³⁵ But the Angel said unto Balaam, Go with the men: but ^[t]what I say unto thee, that shalt thou speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

³⁶ And when Balak heard that Balaam came, he went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, which is in the ^[u]border of Arnon, even in the utmost coast.

³⁷ Then Balak said unto Balaam, Did not I send for thee to call thee? Wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee unto honor?

³⁸ And Balaam made answer unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee, and can I now say ^[v]anything at all? the word that God putteth in my mouth that shall I speak.

³⁹ So Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto the city of ^[w]Huzoth.

⁴⁰ Then Balak offered bullocks, and sheep, and sent thereof to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.

⁴¹ And on the morrow Balak took Balaam and brought him up into the high places of ^[x]Baal, that thence he might see the utmost part of the people.

23 1 Balaam causeth seven altars to be built. 5 God teacheth him what to answer. 8 Instead of cursing he blesseth Israel. 19 God is not like man.

¹ And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks, and seven rams.

² And Balak did as Balaam said, and ^[a]Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.

³ Then Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go, if so be that the Lord will come and meet me: and whatsoever he showeth me, I will tell thee: so he ^[b]went forth alone.

⁴ And God ^[c]met Balaam, and Balaam said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.

⁵ And the Lord ^[d]put an answer in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Go again to Balak, and say on this wise.

⁶ So when he turned unto him, lo, he stood by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.

⁷ Then he uttered his ^[e]parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from ^[f]Aram out of the mountains of the East, saying, Come, curse Jacob for my sake: come, and ^[g]detest Israel.

⁸ How shall I curse, where God hath not cursed? or how shall I detest, where the Lord hath not detested?

⁹ For from the top of the rocks I did see him, and from the hills I did behold him: lo, the people shall dwell by themselves, and shall not be reckoned among the ^[h]nations.

¹⁰ Who can tell the ^[i]dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me ^[j]die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his.

¹¹ Then Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.

¹² And he answered, and said, Must I not take heed to speak that, which the Lord hath put in my mouth?

¹³ And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, whence thou mayest see them, and thou shalt see but the utmost part of them and shalt not see them all: therefore curse them out of that place for my sake.

¹⁴ ¶ And he brought him into ^[k]Zophim to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.

¹⁵ After, he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, and I will meet the Lord yonder.

¹⁶ And the Lord met Balaam, and ^(A)put an answer in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.

¹⁷ And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him: so Balak said unto him, What hath the Lord said?

¹⁸ And he uttered his parable, and said, Rise up Balak, and hear: hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor.

^19 [l]God is not as man, that he should lie, neither as the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? and hath he spoken, and shall he not accomplish it?

²⁰ Behold, I have received commandment to bless: for he hath blessed, and I cannot alter it.

²¹ He seeth none iniquity in Jacob, nor seeth no transgression in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the ^[m]joyful shout of a King is among them.

²² God brought them out of Egypt: their strength is as an unicorn.

²³ For there is no sorcery in Jacob, nor soothsaying in Israel, ^[n]according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought?

²⁴ Behold, the people shall rise up as a lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down, till he eat of the prey, and till he drink the blood of the slain.

²⁵ Then Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse, nor bless them at all.

²⁶ But Balaam answered, and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the Lord speaketh, that must I do?

²⁷ ¶ Again Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another ^[o]place, if so be it will please God, that thou mayest thence curse them for my sake.

²⁸ So Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.

²⁹ Then Balaam said unto Balak, Make me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks, and seven rams.

³⁰ And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.

24 5 Balaam prophesieth of the great prosperity that should come unto Israel. 17 Also of the coming of Christ. 20 The destruction of the Amalekites, and of the Kenites.

¹ When Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, then he went not, ^(A)as certain times before, to set divinations, but set his face toward the ^[a]wilderness.

² And Balaam lift up his eyes, and looked upon Israel, which dwelt according to their tribes, and the Spirit of God came upon him,

^3 (B)And he uttered his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes ^[b]were shut up, hath said,

⁴ He hath said which heard the words of God, and saw the vision of the Almighty, and ^[c]falling in a trance had his eyes opened:

⁵ ¶ How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thine habitations, O Israel!

⁶ As the valleys are they stretched forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as the ^[d]aloe trees, which the Lord hath planted, as the cedars beside the waters.

⁷ The ^[e]water droppeth out of his bucket, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his King shall be higher than ^[f]Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.

⁸ God brought him out of Egypt: his strength shall be as an unicorn: he shall eat the nations his enemies, and bruise their bones, and shoot them through with his arrows.

^9 (C)He coucheth, and lieth down as a young Lion, and as a Lion: Who shall stir him up? blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.

¹⁰ Then Balak was very angry with Balaam, and ^[g]smote his hands together: so Balak said unto Balaam, I sent for thee to curse mine enemies, and behold, thou hast blessed them now three times.

¹¹ Therefore now flee unto thy place: I thought surely to promote thee unto honor, but lo, the ^[h]Lord hath kept thee back from honor.

¹² Then Balaam answered Balak, Told I not also thy messengers, which thou sentest unto me, saying,

¹³ If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot pass the commandment of the Lord, to do either good or bad of mine own mind? what the Lord shall command, that same will I speak.

¹⁴ And now behold, I go unto my people: come, I will ^[i][j]advertise thee what this people shall do to thy folk in the latter days.

¹⁵ And he uttered his parable, and said Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes were shut up hath said,

¹⁶ He hath said that heard the words of God, and hath the knowledge of the most High, and saw the vision of the Almighty, and falling in a trance had his eyes opened:

¹⁷ I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not near: there shall come a ^[k]Star of Jacob, and a Scepter shall rise of Israel and shall smite the ^[l]coasts of Moab, and destroy all the sons of ^[m]Sheth.

¹⁸ And Edom shall be possessed, and Seir shall be a possession to their enemies: but Israel shall do valiantly.

¹⁹ He also that shall have dominion shall be of Jacob, and shall destroy the remnant of the ^[n]city.

²⁰ ¶ And when he looked on Amalek, he uttered his parable, and said, Amalek was the ^[o]first of the nations: but his latter end shall come to destruction.

²¹ And he looked on the ^[p]Kenites, and uttered his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwelling place, and ^[q]put thy nest in the rock:

²² Nevertheless, ^[r]the Kenite shall be spoiled, until Asshur carry thee away captive.

²³ Again he uttered his parable, and said, Alas, ^[s]who shall live when God doeth this?

²⁴ The ships also shall come from the coasts of ^[t]Kittim, and subdue Asshur, and shall subdue Eber, and ^[u]he also shall come to destruction.

²⁵ Then Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went his way.

4 6 Jesus being weary, asketh drink of the woman of Samaria. 21 He teacheth the true worship. 26 He confesseth that he is the Messiah, 32 His meat. 39 The Samaritans believe in him. 46 He healeth the Ruler’s son.

¹ Now ^[a]when the Lord knew, how the Pharisees had heard, that Jesus made ^(A)and baptized more disciples than John,

² (Though Jesus himself baptized not: but his disciples.)

³ He left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.

⁴ And he must needs go through Samaria.

^5 [b]Then came he to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near unto the possession that ^(B)Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

⁶ And there was Jacob’s Well. Jesus then wearied in the journey, sat ^[c]thus on the Well: it was about the ^[d]sixth hour.

⁷ There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said unto her, Give me drink.

⁸ For his disciples were gone away into the city, to buy meat.

⁹ Then said 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 ^[e]meddle not with the Samaritans.

¹⁰ Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest ^[f]that gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee ^[g]water of life.

¹¹ The woman said unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the Well is deep: from whence then hast thou that water of life?

¹² Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the Well, and he himself drank thereof, and his sons, and his cattle.

¹³ Jesus answered, and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water, shall thirst again:

¹⁴ But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never be more athirst: but the water that I shall give him, shall be in him a well of water, springing up into everlasting life.

¹⁵ The woman said unto him, Sir, give me of that water, that I may not thirst, neither come hither to draw.

¹⁶ Jesus said unto her, Go, call thine husband, and come hither.

¹⁷ The woman answered, and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, thou hast well said, I have no husband.

¹⁸ For thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou now hast, is not thine husband: that saidest thou truly.

¹⁹ The woman said unto him, Sir, I see that thou art a Prophet.

^20 [h]Our fathers worshipped in this ^[i]mountain, and ye say, that in ^(C)Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

²¹ Jesus said unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor at Jerusalem worship the Father.

²² Ye worship that which ye ^(D)know not: we worship that which we know: for salvation is of the Jews.

²³ But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in ^[j]Spirit and Truth: for the Father requireth even such to worship him.

^24 (E)God is a ^[k]Spirit, and they that worship him, must worship him in Spirit and Truth.

²⁵ The woman said unto him, I know well that Messiah shall come, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.

²⁶ Jesus said unto her, I am he, that speak unto thee.

²⁷ ¶ And upon that, came his disciples, and marveled that he talked with a woman: yet no man said unto him, What askest thou? or why talkest thou with her.

²⁸ The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and said to the men,

²⁹ Come, see a man which hath told me all things that ever I did: is not he that Christ?

³⁰ Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.

³¹ ¶ In the meanwhile, the disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.

^32 [l]But he said unto them, I have meat to eat, that ye know not of.

³³ Then said the disciples between themselves, Hath any man brought him meat?

³⁴ Jesus said unto them, My meat is that I may do the will of him that sent me, and finish his work.

^35 [m]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 regions: ^(F)for they are white already unto harvest.

^36 [n]And he that reapeth, receiveth reward, and gathered fruit unto life eternal, that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth might rejoice together.

³⁷ For herein is the ^[o]saying true, that one soweth and another reapeth.

³⁸ I sent you to reap that, whereon ye bestowed no labor: other men labored, and ye are entered into their labors.

^39 [p]Now many of the Samaritans of that city believed in him, for the saying of the woman which testified, He hath told me all things that ever I did.

⁴⁰ Then when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him, that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.

⁴¹ And many more believed because of his own word.

⁴² And they said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed that Christ the Savior of the world.

⁴³ ¶ ^[q]So two days after he departed thence, and went into ^[r]Galilee.

⁴⁴ For Jesus himself had ^(G)testified, that a Prophet hath none honor in his own country.

⁴⁵ Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galileans received him, which had seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they went also to the feast.

^46 [s]And Jesus came again into ^(H)Cana a town of Galilee, where he had made of water wine. And there was a certain ^[t]ruler, whose son was sick at Capernaum.

⁴⁷ When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would go down, and heal his son: for he was even ready to die.

⁴⁸ Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.

⁴⁹ The ruler said unto him, Sir, go down before my son dies.

⁵⁰ Jesus said unto him, Go thy way, thy son liveth: and the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and went his way.

⁵¹ And as he was now going down, his servants met him, saying, Thy son liveth.

⁵² Then inquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday the seventh hour the fever left him.

⁵³ Then the father knew that it was the same hour in the which Jesus had said unto him, Thy son liveth. And he believed, and all his household.

⁵⁴ This second miracle did Jesus again, after he was come out of Judea into Galilee.