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20 She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your servant was sleeping. She put him in her arms, and put her dead son in my arms. 21 I got up in the morning to nurse my son, and there[a] he was, dead! But when I examined him carefully in the morning, I realized it was not my baby.”[b] 22 The other woman said, “No! My son is alive; your son is dead!” But the first woman replied, “No, your son is dead; my son is alive.” Each presented her case before the king.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 3:21 tn Heb “look.”
  2. 1 Kings 3:21 tn Heb “look, it was not my son to whom I had given birth.”
  3. 1 Kings 3:22 tn Heb “they spoke before the king.” Another option is to translate, “they argued before the king.”