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Now a visitor came to the rich man,
And he [a]was unwilling to take from his own flock or his own herd,
To prepare for the traveler who had come to him;
Rather he took the poor man’s ewe lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”

Then David’s anger burned greatly against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As Yahweh lives, surely the man who has done this [b](A)deserves to die. And he must make restitution for the lamb (B)fourfold, because he did this thing and had no compassion.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 12:4 Lit spared
  2. 2 Samuel 12:5 Lit is a son of death