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David then said to God, 'I have committed a grave sin by doing this. But now I beg you to forgive your servant for this fault, for I have acted very foolishly.' (1 Chronicles 21, 8)
Yahweh then spoke to Gad, David's seer, (1 Chronicles 21, 9)
'Go and say to David, "Yahweh says this: I offer you three things; choose which one of them I am to inflict on you." ' (1 Chronicles 21, 10)
So Gad went to David and said, 'Yahweh says this, (1 Chronicles 21, 11)
David said to Gad, 'I am very apprehensive. Better for me to fall into Yahweh's hand, since his mercies are very great, than for me to fall into the hands of human enemies.' (1 Chronicles 21, 13)
David, raising his eyes, saw the angel of Yahweh standing between earth and heaven, a drawn sword in his hand stretched out towards Jerusalem. David and the elders then put on sackcloth and fell on their faces, (1 Chronicles 21, 16)
and David said to God, 'Did I not order the people to be counted? I was the one who sinned and actually committed the wrong. But these, the flock, what have they done? Yahweh my God, let your hand lie heavy on me and on my family; but spare your people from the plague!' (1 Chronicles 21, 17)
The angel of Yahweh then ordered Gad to tell David that David should go up and erect an altar to Yahweh on the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. (1 Chronicles 21, 18)
So, at Gad's bidding, given in Yahweh's name, David went up. (1 Chronicles 21, 19)
When David arrived Ornan was threshing wheat. He looked up and saw David and came off the threshing-floor and prostrated himself on the ground at David's feet. (1 Chronicles 21, 21)
David then said to Ornan, 'Let me have the site of the threshing-floor, so that I can build an altar to Yahweh on it; let me have it at the full price -- so that the plague may be lifted from the people.' Ornan said to David, (1 Chronicles 21, 22)
'No,' said King David to Ornan, 'I insist on buying it at the full price. I will not offer Yahweh what belongs to you or bring burnt offerings which have cost me nothing.' (1 Chronicles 21, 24)
