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Foreigners Deported to Israel. 24 The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and dwelt in its cities.

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[a]The Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you, a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?”(A) (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)

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Footnotes

  1. 4:9 Samaritan women were regarded by Jews as ritually impure, and therefore Jews were forbidden to drink from any vessel they had handled.