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20 Araunah saw the king and his men coming toward him, so he went out into the road and bowed low before him in the dust.

Araunah: 21 Why has my lord, the king, come to see your servant?

David: I have come to buy your threshing floor. We must build an altar to the Eternal there so that this epidemic will be lifted from the people.

Araunah: 22 My lord and king, take and offer what seems right. Here are the oxen you need to make the burnt offering. Take the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for firewood.

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20 When Araunah looked and saw the king and his officials coming toward him, he went out and bowed down before the king with his face to the ground.

21 Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?”

“To buy your threshing floor,” David answered, “so I can build an altar to the Lord, that the plague on the people may be stopped.”(A)

22 Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take whatever he wishes and offer it up. Here are oxen(B) for the burnt offering, and here are threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.

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