¹⁶ The descendants of Moses’ father-in-law,^(A) the Kenite,^(B) went up from the City of Palms^[a](C) with the people of Judah to live among the inhabitants of the Desert of Judah in the Negev near Arad.^(D)

¹⁷ Then the men of Judah went with the Simeonites^(E) their fellow Israelites and attacked the Canaanites living in Zephath, and they totally destroyed^[b] the city. Therefore it was called Hormah.^{[c](F) 18} Judah also took^[d] Gaza,^(G) Ashkelon^(H) and Ekron—each city with its territory.

¹⁹ The Lord was with^(I) the men of Judah. They took possession of the hill country,^(J) but they were unable to drive the people from the plains, because they had chariots fitted with iron.^{(K) 20} As Moses had promised, Hebron^(L) was given to Caleb, who drove from it the three sons of Anak.^{(M) 21} The Benjamites, however, did not drive out^(N) the Jebusites, who were living in Jerusalem;^(O) to this day the Jebusites live there with the Benjamites.

²² Now the tribes of Joseph^(P) attacked Bethel,^(Q) and the Lord was with them. ²³ When they sent men to spy out Bethel (formerly called Luz),^{(R) 24} the spies saw a man coming out of the city and they said to him, “Show us how to get into the city and we will see that you are treated well.^(S)” ²⁵ So he showed them, and they put the city to the sword but spared^(T) the man and his whole family. ²⁶ He then went to the land of the Hittites,^(U) where he built a city and called it Luz,^(V) which is its name to this day.

²⁷ But Manasseh did not^(W) drive out the people of Beth Shan or Taanach or Dor^(X) or Ibleam^(Y) or Megiddo^(Z) and their surrounding settlements, for the Canaanites^(AA) were determined to live in that land. ²⁸ When Israel became strong, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor but never drove them out completely.^{(AB) 29} Nor did Ephraim^(AC) drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer,^(AD) but the Canaanites continued to live there among them.^{(AE) 30} Neither did Zebulun drive out the Canaanites living in Kitron or Nahalol, so these Canaanites lived among them, but Zebulun did subject them to forced labor. ³¹ Nor did Asher^(AF) drive out those living in Akko or Sidon^(AG) or Ahlab or Akzib^(AH) or Helbah or Aphek^(AI) or Rehob.^{(AJ) 32} The Asherites lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land because they did not drive them out. ³³ Neither did Naphtali drive out those living in Beth Shemesh^(AK) or Beth Anath^(AL); but the Naphtalites too lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, and those living in Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath became forced laborers for them. ³⁴ The Amorites^(AM) confined the Danites^(AN) to the hill country, not allowing them to come down into the plain.^{(AO) 35} And the Amorites were determined also to hold out in Mount Heres,^(AP) Aijalon^(AQ) and Shaalbim,^(AR) but when the power of the tribes of Joseph increased, they too were pressed into forced labor. ³⁶ The boundary of the Amorites was from Scorpion Pass^(AS) to Sela^(AT) and beyond.^(AU)

Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman

4 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John^(A)— ² although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. ³ So he left Judea^(B) and went back once more to Galilee.

⁴ Now he had to go through Samaria.^{(C) 5} So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.^{(D) 6} Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

⁷ When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”^{(E) 8} (His disciples had gone into the town^(F) to buy food.)

⁹ The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan^(G) woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.^[a])

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.”^(H)

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^(I) and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

¹³ Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴ but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst.^(J) Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water^(K) welling up to eternal life.”^(L)

¹⁵ The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty^(M) 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.

Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. ¹⁸ 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.”