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22 David said to Ornan, |Sell me the threshing floor so I can build on it an altar for the LORD--I'll pay top price--so that the plague may be removed from the people.| 23 Ornan told David, |You can have it! My master, the king, may do what he wants. Look, I am giving you the oxen for burnt sacrifices, the threshing sledges for wood, and the wheat for an offering. I give it all to you.| 24 King David replied to Ornan, |No, I insist on buying it for top price. I will not offer to the LORD what belongs to you or offer a burnt sacrifice that cost me nothing. 25 So David bought the place from Ornan for 600 pieces of gold. 1 Chronicles 21:22-25, New English Translation. Copyright © 1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press.
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