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WISE WOMAN OF TEQOHA
And Yah Ab the son of Seruyah perceives that the heart of the sovereign is on Abi Shalom: 2 and Yah Ab sends to Teqoha and takes thence a wise woman and says to her, I pray you, feign yourself to be a mourner and enrobe mourning clothes; and anoint not yourself with oil: and be as a woman who mourns for the dead many days: 3 and come to the sovereign and word this word to him. - and Yah Ab sets the words in her mouth. 4 And the woman Teqohiy says to the sovereign; and she falls on her nostrils to the earth and prostrates and says, Save, O sovereign. 5 And the sovereign says to her, What - to you? And she says, I am truly a widow woman; and my man dies: 6 and your maid has two sons and the two strive in the field and there is no rescuer between them, and the one smites the first and deathifies him: 7 and behold, the whole family rises against your maid and they say, Give him who smote his brother - to deathify him for the soul of his brother he slaughtered; and we desolate his successor also: and so they quench my coal which survives and set neither name nor survivors to my man on the face of the soil. 8 And the sovereign says to the woman, Go to your house and I misvah concerning you. 9 And the woman Teqohiy says to the sovereign, My adoni, O sovereign, the perversion be on me and on the house of my father: and the sovereign and his throne be innocent. 10 And the sovereign says, Bring me whoever words to you, that he not add to touch you. 11 Then she says, I pray you, may the sovereign remember Yah Veh your Elohim - that the redeemers of blood not abound to ruin lest they destroy my son. And he says, Yah Veh lives! Not one hair of your son falls to the earth. 12 And the woman says, Let your maid, I pray you, word a word to my adoni the sovereign. And he says, Word on. 13 And the woman says, And why fabricate you such a word against the people of Elohim? For the sovereign words this word as one who is guilty, in that the sovereign returns not his expelled: 14 for in dying, we die and are as water poured on the earth, which is not gathered; because Elohim takes not away a soul: yet he fabricates fabrications, that his expelled not be expelled from him: 15 now I come to word this word to my adoni the sovereign, because the people have me to awe: and your maid says, I now word to the sovereign; so that perhaps the sovereign works the word of his maid. 16 For the sovereign hearkens to rescue his maid from the palm of the man who desolates me and my son together from the inheritance of Elohim. 17 And your maid says, The word of my adoni the sovereign now rests: for as an angel of Elohim thus is my adoni the sovereign - to hear good and evil: therefore Yah Veh your Elohim be with you. 18 Then the sovereign answers the woman and says, Conceal not from me, I pray you, the word I ask you. And the woman says, Let my adoni the sovereign now word. 19 And the sovereign says, Is the hand of Yah Ab with you in all this? And the woman answers and says, Your soul lives, my adoni the sovereign, no man can turn right or left from aught that my adoni the sovereign words: for your servant Yah Ab, he misvahed me and he set all these words in the mouth of your maid: 20 so as to go about the face of this word your servant Yah Ab worked this word: and my adoni is wise as the wisdom of an angel of Elohim, to know all that is in the earth. 21 And the sovereign says to Yah Ab, Behold, I pray you, I work this word: go, return the lad Abi Shalom. 22 And Yah Ab falls to the earth on his face and prostrates and blesses the sovereign: and Yah Ab says, Today your servant knows that I find charism in your eyes, my adoni, O sovereign, in that the sovereign works the word of his servant. 23 And Yah Ab rises and goes to Geshur and brings Abi Shalom to Yeru Shalem. 24 And the sovereign says, Have him return to his own house and not see my face. So Abi Shalom returns to his own house and sees not the face of the sovereign: 25 but in all Yisra El there is no man as mightily halaled as Abi Shalom; none become as handsome a man: from the sole of his foot even to his scalp; there is no blemish in him. 26 And he shaves his head; - and at the end of days by days he shaves - and because it is heavy on him, he shaves; he weighs the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the stone of the sovereign. 27 And three sons are birthed to Abi Shalom and one daughter; her name is Tamar: she is a woman of beautiful visage. 28 So Abi Shalom settles two years of days in Yeru Shalem and sees not the face of the sovereign. 29 And Abi Shalom sends for Yah Ab, to send him to the sovereign; but he wills to not come to him: and when he sends again the second time, he wills to not come. 30 And he says to his servants, See, the allotment of Yah Ab is near my hand, and he has barley there; go and burn it on fire. And the servants of Abi Shalom set the allotment on fire: 31 and Yah Ab rises and comes to Abi Shalom - to his house and says to him, Your servants, why burn they my allotment on fire? 32 And Abi Shalom says to Yah Ab, Behold, I send to you, saying, Come here, that I may send you to the sovereign, to say, Why come I from Geshur? It had been good for me to still be there: and now have me see the face of the sovereign; and if there be perversity in me, may he deathify me. 33 And Yah Ab comes to the sovereign and tells him: and he calls for Abi Shalom, and he comes to the sovereign and prostrates himself on his nostrils to the earth at the face of the sovereign: and the sovereign kisses Abi Shalom.
WISE WOMAN OF TEQOHA
And Yah Ab the son of Seruyah perceives that the heart of the sovereign is on Abi Shalom: 2 and Yah Ab sends to Teqoha and takes thence a wise woman and says to her, I pray you, feign yourself to be a mourner and enrobe mourning clothes; and anoint not yourself with oil: and be as a woman who mourns for the dead many days: 3 and come to the sovereign and word this word to him. - and Yah Ab sets the words in her mouth. 4 And the woman Teqohiy says to the sovereign; and she falls on her nostrils to the earth and prostrates and says, Save, O sovereign. 5 And the sovereign says to her, What - to you? And she says, I am truly a widow woman; and my man dies: 6 and your maid has two sons and the two strive in the field and there is no rescuer between them, and the one smites the first and deathifies him: 7 and behold, the whole family rises against your maid and they say, Give him who smote his brother - to deathify him for the soul of his brother he slaughtered; and we desolate his successor also: and so they quench my coal which survives and set neither name nor survivors to my man on the face of the soil. 8 And the sovereign says to the woman, Go to your house and I misvah concerning you. 9 And the woman Teqohiy says to the sovereign, My adoni, O sovereign, the perversion be on me and on the house of my father: and the sovereign and his throne be innocent. 10 And the sovereign says, Bring me whoever words to you, that he not add to touch you. 11 Then she says, I pray you, may the sovereign remember Yah Veh your Elohim - that the redeemers of blood not abound to ruin lest they destroy my son. And he says, Yah Veh lives! Not one hair of your son falls to the earth. 12 And the woman says, Let your maid, I pray you, word a word to my adoni the sovereign. And he says, Word on. 13 And the woman says, And why fabricate you such a word against the people of Elohim? For the sovereign words this word as one who is guilty, in that the sovereign returns not his expelled: 14 for in dying, we die and are as water poured on the earth, which is not gathered; because Elohim takes not away a soul: yet he fabricates fabrications, that his expelled not be expelled from him: 15 now I come to word this word to my adoni the sovereign, because the people have me to awe: and your maid says, I now word to the sovereign; so that perhaps the sovereign works the word of his maid. 16 For the sovereign hearkens to rescue his maid from the palm of the man who desolates me and my son together from the inheritance of Elohim. 17 And your maid says, The word of my adoni the sovereign now rests: for as an angel of Elohim thus is my adoni the sovereign - to hear good and evil: therefore Yah Veh your Elohim be with you. 18 Then the sovereign answers the woman and says, Conceal not from me, I pray you, the word I ask you. And the woman says, Let my adoni the sovereign now word. 19 And the sovereign says, Is the hand of Yah Ab with you in all this? And the woman answers and says, Your soul lives, my adoni the sovereign, no man can turn right or left from aught that my adoni the sovereign words: for your servant Yah Ab, he misvahed me and he set all these words in the mouth of your maid: 20 so as to go about the face of this word your servant Yah Ab worked this word: and my adoni is wise as the wisdom of an angel of Elohim, to know all that is in the earth. 21 And the sovereign says to Yah Ab, Behold, I pray you, I work this word: go, return the lad Abi Shalom. 22 And Yah Ab falls to the earth on his face and prostrates and blesses the sovereign: and Yah Ab says, Today your servant knows that I find charism in your eyes, my adoni, O sovereign, in that the sovereign works the word of his servant. 23 And Yah Ab rises and goes to Geshur and brings Abi Shalom to Yeru Shalem. 24 And the sovereign says, Have him return to his own house and not see my face. So Abi Shalom returns to his own house and sees not the face of the sovereign: 25 but in all Yisra El there is no man as mightily halaled as Abi Shalom; none become as handsome a man: from the sole of his foot even to his scalp; there is no blemish in him. 26 And he shaves his head; - and at the end of days by days he shaves - and because it is heavy on him, he shaves; he weighs the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the stone of the sovereign. 27 And three sons are birthed to Abi Shalom and one daughter; her name is Tamar: she is a woman of beautiful visage. 28 So Abi Shalom settles two years of days in Yeru Shalem and sees not the face of the sovereign. 29 And Abi Shalom sends for Yah Ab, to send him to the sovereign; but he wills to not come to him: and when he sends again the second time, he wills to not come. 30 And he says to his servants, See, the allotment of Yah Ab is near my hand, and he has barley there; go and burn it on fire. And the servants of Abi Shalom set the allotment on fire: 31 and Yah Ab rises and comes to Abi Shalom - to his house and says to him, Your servants, why burn they my allotment on fire? 32 And Abi Shalom says to Yah Ab, Behold, I send to you, saying, Come here, that I may send you to the sovereign, to say, Why come I from Geshur? It had been good for me to still be there: and now have me see the face of the sovereign; and if there be perversity in me, may he deathify me. 33 And Yah Ab comes to the sovereign and tells him: and he calls for Abi Shalom, and he comes to the sovereign and prostrates himself on his nostrils to the earth at the face of the sovereign: and the sovereign kisses Abi Shalom.