10 ¹ After this the Lord appointed a further seventy-two Some witnesses read: seventy. and sent them on ahead in pairs to every town and place he was going to visit himself. 10 ² He said to them: 'The crop is heavy, but labourers are scarce; you must therefore beg the owner to send labourers to harvest his crop. Be on your way. 10 ³ And look, I am sending you like lambs among wolves. 10 ⁴ Carry no purse or pack, and travel barefoot. Exchange no greetings on the road. 10 ⁵ When you go into a house, let your first words be, "Peace to this house." 10 ⁶ If there is a man of peace there, your peace will rest upon him; if not, it will return and rest upon you. 10 ⁷ Stay in that one house, sharing their food and drink; for the worker earns his pay. 10 ⁸ Do not move from house to house. When you come into a town and they make you welcome, eat the food provided for you; 10 ⁹ heal the sick there, and say, "The kingdom of God has come close to you." 10 ¹⁰ When you enter a town and they do not make you welcome, go out into its streets and say, 10 ¹¹ "The very dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off to your shame. 10 ¹² Only take note of this: the kingdom of God has come close." I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom on the great Day than for that town.