Old Testament

Numbers 4

^4:1Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ^4:2"Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers' houses, ^4:3from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting. ^4:4This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting, the most holy things. ^4:5When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it, ^4:6and shall put a covering of sealskin on it, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles. ^4:7On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it. ^4:8They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles. ^4:9They shall take a blue cloth, and cover the lampstand of the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it. ^4:10They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame. ^4:11On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles. ^4:12They shall take all the vessels of ministry, with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, and cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame. ^4:13They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it. ^4:14They shall put on it all its vessels, with which they minister about it, the fire pans, the flesh hooks, the shovels, and the basins; all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles.

^4:15"When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it: but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting.

^4:16"The charge of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be the oil for the light, the sweet incense, the continual meal offering, and the anointing oil, the charge of all the tabernacle, and of all that is in it, the sanctuary, and its furnishings."

^4:17Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ^4:18"Don't cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites; ^4:19but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them everyone to his service and to his burden; ^4:20but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die."

^4:21Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ^4:22"Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers' houses, by their families; ^4:23from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shall you number them; all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting. ^4:24This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens: ^4:25they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the Tent of Meeting, its covering, and the covering of sealskin that is above on it, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting, ^4:26and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and around the altar, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and whatever shall be done with them. Therein shall they serve. ^4:27At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden, and in all their service; and you shall appoint to them in charge all their burden. ^4:28This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the Tent of Meeting: and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

^4:29"As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families, by their fathers' houses; ^4:30from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old shall you number them, everyone who enters on the service, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting. ^4:31This is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, ^4:32and the pillars of the court around it, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name you shall appoint the instruments of the charge of their burden. ^4:33This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the Tent of Meeting, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest."

^4:34Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families, and by their fathers' houses, ^4:35from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting. ^4:36Those who were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred fifty. ^4:37These are those who were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.

^4:38Those who were numbered of the sons of Gershon, their families, and by their fathers' houses, ^4:39from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting, ^4:40even those who were numbered of them, by their families, by their fathers' houses, were two thousand six hundred thirty. ^4:41These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh. ^4:42Those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by their fathers' houses, ^4:43from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting, ^4:44even those who were numbered of them by their families, were three thousand two hundred. ^4:45These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses. ^4:46All those who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel numbered, by their families, and by their fathers' houses, ^4:47from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered in to do the work of service, and the work of bearing burdens in the Tent of Meeting, ^4:48even those who were numbered of them, were eight thousand five hundred eighty. ^4:49According to the commandment of Yahweh they were numbered by Moses, everyone according to his service, and according to his burden. Thus were they numbered by him, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

New Testament

John 4

^4:1Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John ^4:2(although Jesus himself didn't baptize, but his disciples), ^4:3he left Judea, and departed into Galilee. ^4:4He needed to pass through Samaria. ^4:5So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. ^4:6Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. ^4:7A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." ^4:8For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

^4:9The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

^4:10Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

^4:11The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From where then have you that living water? ^4:12Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his sons, and his cattle?"

^4:13Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, ^4:14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."

^4:15The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I don't get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw."

^4:16Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."

^4:17The woman answered, "I have no husband."

Jesus said to her, "You said well, 'I have no husband,' ^4:18for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly."

^4:19The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. ^4:20Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship."

^4:21Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father. ^4:22You worship that which you don't know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. ^4:23But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers. ^4:24God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

^4:25The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah comes," (he who is called Christ). "When he has come, he will declare to us all things."

^4:26Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who speaks to you." ^4:27At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?" or, "Why do you speak with her?" ^4:28So the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people, ^4:29"Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?"

^4:30They went out of the city, and were coming to him. ^4:31In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."

^4:32But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don't know about."

^4:33The disciples therefore said one to another, "Has anyone brought him something to eat?"

^4:34Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work. ^4:35Don't you say, 'There are yet four months until the harvest?' Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already. ^4:36He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. ^4:37For in this the saying is true, 'One sows, and another reaps.' ^4:38I sent you to reap that for which you haven't labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."

^4:39From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, 'He told me everything that I did." ^4:40So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days. ^4:41Many more believed because of his word. ^4:42They said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world."

^4:43After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee. ^4:44For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. ^4:45So when he came into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast. ^4:46Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. ^4:47When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. ^4:48Jesus therefore said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe."

^4:49The nobleman said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies." ^4:50Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your son lives." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. ^4:51As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying "Your child lives!" ^4:52So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him." ^4:53So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives." He believed, as did his whole house. ^4:54This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.