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DAVID AND BATH SHEBA
And so be it, at the turn of the year, at the time angels go forth, David sends Yah Ab and his servants with him and all Yisra El; and they ruin the sons of Ammon and besiege Rabbah: and David settles at Yeru Shalem. 2 And so be it, at evening time, David rises from his bed and walks on the roof of the house of the sovereign: and from the roof he sees a woman baptizing herself; and the woman is of mighty good visage. 3 And David sends and enquires after the woman and says, Is not this Bath Sheba the daughter of Eli Am the woman of Uri Yah the Hethiy? 4 And David sends angels and takes her; and she comes in to him and he lies down with her; and she hallows herself from her foulness and returns to her house. 5 And the woman conceives and sends and tells David and says, I conceive. 6 And David sends to Yah Ab, Send me Uri Yah the Hethiy. - and Yah Ab sends Uri Yah to David. 7 And Uri Yah comes to him, and David asks of the shalom of Yah Ab and of the shalom of the people and of the shalom of the war. 8 And David says to Uri Yah, Descend to your house and baptize your feet. And Uri Yah goes from the house of the sovereign and an exaltment from the sovereign goes after him: 9 and Uri Yah lies down at the portal of the house of the sovereign with all the servants of his adoni and descends not to his house. 10 And they tell David, saying, Uri Yah descends not to his house. And David says to Uri Yah, Came you not from a journey? Why descend you not to your house? 11 And Uri Yah says to David, The ark and Yisra El and Yah Hudah settle in sukkoth/brush arbors; and my adoni Yah Ab and the servants of my adoni encamp on the face of the fields: and I - go I to my house, to eat and to drink and to lie down with my woman? As you live and as your soul lives, I work no such word. 12 And David says to Uri Yah, Settle here today also and tomorrow I send you away. So Uri Yah settles in Yeru Shalem that day and the morrow: 13 and David calls him, and he eats and drinks at his face; and he intoxicates him: and at evening he goes out to lie down on his bed with the servants of his adoni; but he descends not to his house. 14 And so be it, in the morning, David inscribes a scroll to Yah Ab and sends it by the hand of Uri Yah: 15 and he inscribes in the scroll, saying, Give Uri Yah at the face of the strongest war and you turn back from after him that he be smitten and die. 16 And so be it, Yah Ab guards the city; and he gives Uri Yah to a place where he knows there are valiant men: 17 and the men of the city go and fight Yah Ab: and there fall of the people of the servants of David; and Uri Yah the Hethiy also dies. 18 And Yah Ab sends and tells David all the words concerning the war; 19 and misvahs the angel, saying, When you finish wording the words of the war to the sovereign, 20 and so be it, if the fury of the sovereign ascends, and he says to you, Why approached you so near the city to fight? Know you not that they shoot from the wall? 21 Who smote Abi Melech the son of Yerub Besheth? Cast not a woman a slice of an upper millstone on him from the wall, that he died in Tebes? Why approached you the wall? - then you say, Your servant Uri Yah the Hethiy also died. 22 And the angel goes and comes and tells David all Yah Ab sent him for: 23 and the angel says to David, Surely the men prevail mightily against us and go to us into the field; and we are on them even to the opening of the portal: 24 and the shooters shoot on your servants from off the wall; and some of the servants of the sovereign died and your servant Uri Yah the Hethiy also died. 25 Then David says to the angel, Say thus to Yah Ab, This word is not evil in your eyes; for thus the sword devours one: strengthen your warfare against the city and demolish it: and you strengthen him. 26 And the woman of Uri Yah hears her man Uri Yah died, and chops for her master: 27 and the mourning passes, and David sends and gathers her to his house; and she becomes his woman and births him a son: and the word David works is evil in the eyes of Yah Veh.
DAVID AND BATH SHEBA
And so be it, at the turn of the year, at the time angels go forth, David sends Yah Ab and his servants with him and all Yisra El; and they ruin the sons of Ammon and besiege Rabbah: and David settles at Yeru Shalem. 2 And so be it, at evening time, David rises from his bed and walks on the roof of the house of the sovereign: and from the roof he sees a woman baptizing herself; and the woman is of mighty good visage. 3 And David sends and enquires after the woman and says, Is not this Bath Sheba the daughter of Eli Am the woman of Uri Yah the Hethiy? 4 And David sends angels and takes her; and she comes in to him and he lies down with her; and she hallows herself from her foulness and returns to her house. 5 And the woman conceives and sends and tells David and says, I conceive. 6 And David sends to Yah Ab, Send me Uri Yah the Hethiy. - and Yah Ab sends Uri Yah to David. 7 And Uri Yah comes to him, and David asks of the shalom of Yah Ab and of the shalom of the people and of the shalom of the war. 8 And David says to Uri Yah, Descend to your house and baptize your feet. And Uri Yah goes from the house of the sovereign and an exaltment from the sovereign goes after him: 9 and Uri Yah lies down at the portal of the house of the sovereign with all the servants of his adoni and descends not to his house. 10 And they tell David, saying, Uri Yah descends not to his house. And David says to Uri Yah, Came you not from a journey? Why descend you not to your house? 11 And Uri Yah says to David, The ark and Yisra El and Yah Hudah settle in sukkoth/brush arbors; and my adoni Yah Ab and the servants of my adoni encamp on the face of the fields: and I - go I to my house, to eat and to drink and to lie down with my woman? As you live and as your soul lives, I work no such word. 12 And David says to Uri Yah, Settle here today also and tomorrow I send you away. So Uri Yah settles in Yeru Shalem that day and the morrow: 13 and David calls him, and he eats and drinks at his face; and he intoxicates him: and at evening he goes out to lie down on his bed with the servants of his adoni; but he descends not to his house. 14 And so be it, in the morning, David inscribes a scroll to Yah Ab and sends it by the hand of Uri Yah: 15 and he inscribes in the scroll, saying, Give Uri Yah at the face of the strongest war and you turn back from after him that he be smitten and die. 16 And so be it, Yah Ab guards the city; and he gives Uri Yah to a place where he knows there are valiant men: 17 and the men of the city go and fight Yah Ab: and there fall of the people of the servants of David; and Uri Yah the Hethiy also dies. 18 And Yah Ab sends and tells David all the words concerning the war; 19 and misvahs the angel, saying, When you finish wording the words of the war to the sovereign, 20 and so be it, if the fury of the sovereign ascends, and he says to you, Why approached you so near the city to fight? Know you not that they shoot from the wall? 21 Who smote Abi Melech the son of Yerub Besheth? Cast not a woman a slice of an upper millstone on him from the wall, that he died in Tebes? Why approached you the wall? - then you say, Your servant Uri Yah the Hethiy also died. 22 And the angel goes and comes and tells David all Yah Ab sent him for: 23 and the angel says to David, Surely the men prevail mightily against us and go to us into the field; and we are on them even to the opening of the portal: 24 and the shooters shoot on your servants from off the wall; and some of the servants of the sovereign died and your servant Uri Yah the Hethiy also died. 25 Then David says to the angel, Say thus to Yah Ab, This word is not evil in your eyes; for thus the sword devours one: strengthen your warfare against the city and demolish it: and you strengthen him. 26 And the woman of Uri Yah hears her man Uri Yah died, and chops for her master: 27 and the mourning passes, and David sends and gathers her to his house; and she becomes his woman and births him a son: and the word David works is evil in the eyes of Yah Veh.