And from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, he bought for a hundred pieces of money the piece of land on which he had pitched his tent.
John 4:5 - English Standard Version 2016 So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And in doing so, He arrived at a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the tract of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. American Standard Version (1901) So he cometh to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph: Common English Bible He came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, which was near the land Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, he went into a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the estate which Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, which is called Sichar, near the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph. |
And from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, he bought for a hundred pieces of money the piece of land on which he had pitched his tent.
Moreover, I have given to you rather than to your brothers one mountain slope that I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow.”
For the saying that he called out by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel and against all the houses of the high places that are in the cities of Samaria shall surely come to pass.”
And he sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village of the Samaritans, to make preparations for him.
Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”
Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.”
Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.
As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.