¹¹ Then David arose in the morning, and the word of Yahweh came to ^(A)the prophet Gad, David’s ^(B)seer, saying, ¹² “Go and speak to David, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “I am offering you three things; choose for yourself one of them, and I will do that to you.”’” ¹³ So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall ^(C)seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your adversaries while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now, know and see what word I should return to Him who sent me.” ¹⁴ Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let us now fall into the hand of Yahweh, ^(D)for His compassions are abundant. But do not let me fall into the hand of man.”

¹⁵ So ^(E)Yahweh ^[a]sent a pestilence against Israel from the morning until the appointed time, and 70,000 men of the people ^(F)from Dan to Beersheba died. ^16 (G)Then the angel sent forth his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, and ^(H)Yahweh ^[b]relented of the calamity and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough! Now relax your hand!” And the angel of Yahweh was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. ¹⁷ Then David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who was striking down the people, and said, “Behold, ^(I)it is I who have sinned, and it is I who have done unrighteousness; but ^(J)these sheep, what have they done? Please let Your hand be against me and my father’s house.”