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22 Then David said to Ornan, “Give me the [a]site of this threshing floor, that I may build on it an altar to Yahweh; for the full price you shall give it to me, that the plague may be checked from being upon the people.” 23 And Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself; and let my lord the king do what is good in his sight. See, I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings and the threshing sledges for the wood and the wheat for the grain offering; I will give everything.” 24 However, King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will surely buy it for the full price; for I will not lift up what is yours to Yahweh, or offer a burnt offering [b]which costs me nothing.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 21:22 Lit place
  2. 1 Chronicles 21:24 Lit gratuitously