⁴ “Now a traveler came to the rich man, but the rich man refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the ewe lamb that belonged to the poor man and prepared it for the one who had come to him.”

⁵ David^(A) burned with anger^(B) against the man^(C) and said to Nathan, “As surely as the Lord lives,^(D) the man who did this must die! ⁶ He must pay for that lamb four times over,^(E) because he did such a thing and had no pity.”