¹⁶ Then she went and sat down by herself about a hundred yards^[a] away. “I don’t want to watch the boy die,” she said, as she burst into tears.

⁶ For how can I endure to see my people and my family slaughtered and destroyed?”

²⁶ Then the woman who was the real mother of the living child, and who loved him very much, cried out, “Oh no, my lord! Give her the child—please do not kill him!”

But the other woman said, “All right, he will be neither yours nor mine; divide him between us!”