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18 And the angel of YHWH spoke to Gad, to say to David that David should go and erect an altar to YHWH on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 19 And David went up at the word of Gad, which he had spoken in the name of YHWH. 20 And Ornan turned and saw the angel. And his four sons with him hid themselves, and Ornan was threshing wheat. 21 And David came to Ornan, and Ornan looked and saw David, and he went out from the threshing floor and bowed before David with his face to the ground. 22 And David said to Ornan, “Grant me the place of the threshing floor, that I may build on it an altar to YHWH. At the full price you shall grant it to me, that the plague may be withdrawn from the people.” 23 And Ornan said to David, “Take it to yourself, and let my lord the king do good in his eyes. See, I give you the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing sledges for wood, and the wheat for the grain offering; all I have given.” 24 And King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will surely buy it for the full price; for I will not take what is yours for YHWH, so as to offer a burnt offering without cost.” 25 And David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight. 26 And David built there an altar to YHWH, and he offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and he called to YHWH. And He answered him by fire from the heavens on the altar of the burnt offering. 1 Chronicles 21:18-26, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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