20 So she arose in the middle of the night and took my son from beside me while your maidservant slept, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom. 21 When I rose in the morning to nurse my son, behold, he was dead; but when I looked at him carefully in the morning, behold, he was not my son, whom I had borne.” 22 Then the other woman said, “No! For the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.” But [a]the first woman said, “No! For the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.” Thus they spoke before the king.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 3:22 Lit this one was saying