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NATHAN REBUKES DAVID
And Yah Veh sends Nathan to David: and he comes to him and says to him, Two men are in one city - the one rich and the one impoverished: 2 the rich has mighty abundant flocks and oxen; 3 but the impoverished has naught - except one little ewe lamb which he chatteled and livened: and it grows together with him and with his sons: it eats of his own morsel and drinks of his own cup and lies down in his bosom as his daughter. 4 And a wayfarer comes to the rich man; and he spares to take of his own flock and of his own oxen, to work for the caravan that comes to him: but takes the ewe lamb of the impoverished man and works it for the man who comes to him. 5 And David kindles his wrath mightily against the man; and he says to Nathan, Yah Veh lives! The man who works this is a son of death: 6 and have him shalam fourfold for the ewe lamb because he works this word, and finally, has no compassion. 7 And Nathan says to David, You are the man! Thus says Yah Veh Elohim of Yisra El, I anointed you sovereign over Yisra El and I rescued you from the hand of Shaul; 8 and I give you the house of your adoni and the women of your adoni into your bosom and give you the house of Yisra El and of Yah Hudah; and if that be too little, I had added these and those to you. 9 Why despise you the word of Yah Veh to work evil in his eyes? You smote Uri Yah the Hethiy with the sword and took his woman to be your woman and slaughtered him with the sword by the sons of Ammon: 10 and now the sword turns not aside from your house eternally; finally, you despised me and took the woman of Uri Yah the Hethiy to be your woman. 11 Thus says Yah Veh, Behold, I raise evil against you from your own house and I take your women in front of your eyes and give them to your friend: to lie down with your women in the eyes of this sun. 12 For you worked covertly: but I work this word in front of all Yisra El and in front of the sun. 13 And David says to Nathan, I sinned against Yah Veh. And Nathan says to David, Yah Veh also passes over your sin that you not die. 14 Only, because by this word you give the enemies of Yah Veh great occasion to scorn; and in dying, the son birthed to you dies. 15 - and Nathan goes to his house. And Yah Veh smites the child the woman of Uri Yah births to David and it becomes very sick: 16 and David beseeches Elohim for the lad; and David fasts a fast; and goes in and stays overnight on the earth. 17 And the elders of his house rise to him, to raise him off the earth: but he neither wills nor chews bread with them. 18 And so be it, on the seventh day, the child dies: and the servants of David awe to tell him the child died: for they say, Behold, while the child is yet alive, we worded to him and he hearkened not to our voice: how then works he himself evil if we say to him the child died? 19 And David sees his servants enchant, and David discerns that the child died: and David says to his servants, Has the child died? And they say, Died. 20 And David rises from the earth and baptizes and anoints and passes his clothes; and comes into the house of Yah Veh and prostrates: and comes to his house; and he asks: and they set bread in front of him; and he eats. 21 And his servants say to him, What is this word you work? You fast and weep for the living child; and when the child dies, you rise and eat bread. 22 And he says, While the child is yet alive, I fast and weep: for I say, Who knows whether Yah Veh grants me charism that the child lives? 23 But now he died. Why fast I? Can I return him? I go to him, but he returns not to me. 24
THE BIRTH OF SHELOMOH
And David sighs over Bath Sheba his woman and goes in to her and lies down with her; and she births a son and he calls his name Shelomoh: and Yah Veh loves him: 25 and he sends by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he calls his name Yedid Yah, because of Yah Veh. 26 And Yah Ab fights Rabbah of the sons of Ammon and captures the sovereigndom city: 27 and Yah Ab sends angels to David and says, I fight Rabbah and capture the city of waters: 28 and now gather the rest of the people and encamp against the city and capture it: lest I capture the city and call it after my name. 29 And David gathers all the people and goes to Rabbah and fights it and captures it: 30 and he takes the crown of their sovereign off his head - the weight - a round of gold with the esteemed stones: and it is on the head of David: and he brings forth the spoil of the city - mightily abounding: 31 and he brings the people therein and sets them under saws and under slicers of iron and under axes of iron and passes them through the brickkiln: and thus he works to all the cities of the sons of Ammon: and David and all the people return to Yeru Shalem.
NATHAN REBUKES DAVID
And Yah Veh sends Nathan to David: and he comes to him and says to him, Two men are in one city - the one rich and the one impoverished: 2 the rich has mighty abundant flocks and oxen; 3 but the impoverished has naught - except one little ewe lamb which he chatteled and livened: and it grows together with him and with his sons: it eats of his own morsel and drinks of his own cup and lies down in his bosom as his daughter. 4 And a wayfarer comes to the rich man; and he spares to take of his own flock and of his own oxen, to work for the caravan that comes to him: but takes the ewe lamb of the impoverished man and works it for the man who comes to him. 5 And David kindles his wrath mightily against the man; and he says to Nathan, Yah Veh lives! The man who works this is a son of death: 6 and have him shalam fourfold for the ewe lamb because he works this word, and finally, has no compassion. 7 And Nathan says to David, You are the man! Thus says Yah Veh Elohim of Yisra El, I anointed you sovereign over Yisra El and I rescued you from the hand of Shaul; 8 and I give you the house of your adoni and the women of your adoni into your bosom and give you the house of Yisra El and of Yah Hudah; and if that be too little, I had added these and those to you. 9 Why despise you the word of Yah Veh to work evil in his eyes? You smote Uri Yah the Hethiy with the sword and took his woman to be your woman and slaughtered him with the sword by the sons of Ammon: 10 and now the sword turns not aside from your house eternally; finally, you despised me and took the woman of Uri Yah the Hethiy to be your woman. 11 Thus says Yah Veh, Behold, I raise evil against you from your own house and I take your women in front of your eyes and give them to your friend: to lie down with your women in the eyes of this sun. 12 For you worked covertly: but I work this word in front of all Yisra El and in front of the sun. 13 And David says to Nathan, I sinned against Yah Veh. And Nathan says to David, Yah Veh also passes over your sin that you not die. 14 Only, because by this word you give the enemies of Yah Veh great occasion to scorn; and in dying, the son birthed to you dies. 15 - and Nathan goes to his house. And Yah Veh smites the child the woman of Uri Yah births to David and it becomes very sick: 16 and David beseeches Elohim for the lad; and David fasts a fast; and goes in and stays overnight on the earth. 17 And the elders of his house rise to him, to raise him off the earth: but he neither wills nor chews bread with them. 18 And so be it, on the seventh day, the child dies: and the servants of David awe to tell him the child died: for they say, Behold, while the child is yet alive, we worded to him and he hearkened not to our voice: how then works he himself evil if we say to him the child died? 19 And David sees his servants enchant, and David discerns that the child died: and David says to his servants, Has the child died? And they say, Died. 20 And David rises from the earth and baptizes and anoints and passes his clothes; and comes into the house of Yah Veh and prostrates: and comes to his house; and he asks: and they set bread in front of him; and he eats. 21 And his servants say to him, What is this word you work? You fast and weep for the living child; and when the child dies, you rise and eat bread. 22 And he says, While the child is yet alive, I fast and weep: for I say, Who knows whether Yah Veh grants me charism that the child lives? 23 But now he died. Why fast I? Can I return him? I go to him, but he returns not to me. 24
THE BIRTH OF SHELOMOH
And David sighs over Bath Sheba his woman and goes in to her and lies down with her; and she births a son and he calls his name Shelomoh: and Yah Veh loves him: 25 and he sends by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he calls his name Yedid Yah, because of Yah Veh. 26 And Yah Ab fights Rabbah of the sons of Ammon and captures the sovereigndom city: 27 and Yah Ab sends angels to David and says, I fight Rabbah and capture the city of waters: 28 and now gather the rest of the people and encamp against the city and capture it: lest I capture the city and call it after my name. 29 And David gathers all the people and goes to Rabbah and fights it and captures it: 30 and he takes the crown of their sovereign off his head - the weight - a round of gold with the esteemed stones: and it is on the head of David: and he brings forth the spoil of the city - mightily abounding: 31 and he brings the people therein and sets them under saws and under slicers of iron and under axes of iron and passes them through the brickkiln: and thus he works to all the cities of the sons of Ammon: and David and all the people return to Yeru Shalem.