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12 So Michal let David down through the window; he fled away and escaped.
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So Michal let David down through a window, and he fled and escaped.
13 Michal took an idol and laid it on the bed; she put a net of goats' hair on its head, and covered it with the clothes.
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Then Michal took an idol and laid it on the bed, covering it with a garment and putting some goats’ hair at the head.
14 When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick."
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When Saul sent the men to capture David, Michal said, “He is ill.”
15 Then Saul sent the messengers to see David for themselves. He said, "Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him."
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Then Saul sent the men back to see David and told them, “Bring him up to me in his bed so that I may kill him.”
16 When the messengers came in, the idol was in the bed, with the covering of goats' hair on its head.
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But when the men entered, there was the idol in the bed, and at the head was some goats’ hair.
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