CLV(i)
16 then come in do two women, harlots, unto the king, and stand before him,
17 and the one woman said, `O, my lord, I and this woman are dwelling in one house, and I bring forth with her, in the house;"
18 and it comes to pass on the third day of my bringing forth, that this woman also brings forth, and we [are] together, there is no stranger with us in the house, save we two, in the house.
19 And the son of this woman dies at night, because she has lain upon it,
20 and she rises in the middle of the night, and takes my son from beside me--and your handmaid is asleep--and lays it in her bosom, and her dead son she has laid in my bosom;"
21 and I rise in the morning to suckle my son, and lo, dead; and I consider concerning it in the morning, and lo, it was not my son whom I did bear..
22 And the other woman said, `Nay, but my son [is] the living, and your son the dead;' and this [one] said, `Nay, but your son [is] the dead, and my son the living.' And they speak before the king.
23 And the king said, `This [one] said, This [is] my son, the living, and your son [is] the dead; and that [one] said, Nay, but your son [is] the dead, and my son the living..
24 And the king said, `Take for me a sword;' and they bring the sword before the king,
25 and the king said, `Cut the living child into two, and give the half to the one, and the half to the other..
26 And the woman whose son [is] the living one said unto the king (for her bowels yearned over her son), yea, she said, `O, my lord, give to her the living child, and put it not at all to death;' and this [one] said, `Let it be neither mine or your--cut [it]..
27 And the king answers and said, `Give you to her the living child, and put it not at all to death; she [is] its mother..
28 And all Israel hear of the judgment that the king has judged, and fear because of the king, for they have seen that the wisdom of Elohim [is] in his heart, to do judgment.