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So David sent messengers to bring Bathsheba to him. When she came to him, he ·had sexual relations [L lay] with her. (Now Bathsheba had purified herself from her ·monthly period [L uncleanness; Lev. 15:19–24].) Then she went back to her house. But Bathsheba ·became pregnant [conceived] and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”

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

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