³ But the poor had none at all, save one little sheep which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up with him, and with his children also, and did eat of his own morsels, and drank of his own cup, and slept in his bosom, and was unto him as his daughter.

⁴ Now there came a ^[a]stranger unto the rich man, who ^[b]refused to take of his own sheep, and of his own oxen to dress for the stranger that was come unto him, but took the poor man’s sheep, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.

⁵ Then ^[c]David was exceedingly wroth with the man, and said to Nathan, As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this thing, ^[d]shall surely die,