- 大衛舉目、看見耶和華的使者站在天地間、手裡有拔出來的刀、伸在耶路撒冷以上。大衛和長老都身穿麻衣、面伏於地。
- 大衛禱告 神說、吩咐數點百姓的不是我麼.我犯了罪、行了惡.但這群羊作了甚麼呢.願耶和華我 神的手攻擊我、和我的父家.不要攻擊你的民、降瘟疫與他們。
- 耶和華的使者吩咐迦得去告訴大衛、叫他上去、在耶布斯人阿珥楠的禾場上、為耶和華築一座壇。
- 大衛就照著迦得奉耶和華名所說的話上去了。
- 那時阿珥楠正打麥子.回頭看見天使、就和他四個兒子都藏起來了。
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- And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
- And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.
- Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD.
- And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
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