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David sent messengers to bring her. She came to him, and he lay down with her. (She had been purifying herself from her ceremonial uncleanness.)[a] She then returned to her house.

The woman became pregnant, so she sent a message and told David, “I am pregnant.”

David sent a message to Joab, “Send Uriah the Hittite to me.” So Joab sent Uriah to David,

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  1. 2 Samuel 11:4 That Bathsheba was purifying herself after her period shows that the child was David’s and that David and Bathsheba were more careful about keeping pure from the ceremonial contamination caused by contact with blood than they were about keeping pure from the moral pollution caused by adultery.