2. although יהושע Himself did not immerse, but His taught ones –
3. He left Yehuḏah and went away again to Galil.
4. And He had to pass through Shomeron.
5. So He came to a city of Shomeron, called Sheḵem, near the piece of land Ya‛aqoḇ gave to his son Yosĕph.
6. And Ya‛aqoḇ’s fountain was there. So יהושע, being wearied from the journey, was sitting thus at the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.
7. A woman of Shomeron came to draw water. יהושע said to her, “Give Me to drink.”
8. For His taught ones had gone off into the city to buy food.
9. The woman of Shomeron therefore said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Yehuḏite, ask a drink from me, a woman of Shomeron?” For Yehuḏim do not associate with Shomeronites.
10. יהושע answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of Elohim, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me to drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
11. The woman said to Him, “Master, You have no vessel, and the well is deep. From where, then, do You have living water?
12. “Are You greater than our father Ya‛aqoḇ, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?”
13. יהושע answered and said to her, “Everyone drinking of this water shall thirst again,
14. but whoever drinks of the water I give him shall certainly never thirst. And the water that I give him shall become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
15. The woman said to Him, “Master, give me this water, so that I do not thirst, nor come here to draw.”
16. יהושע said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”