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Now the angel of the LORD had commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and raise an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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So David went up at Gad's word, which he had spoken in the name of the LORD.
20
Now Ornan was threshing wheat. He turned and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves.
21
As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David and went out from the threshing floor and paid homage to David with his face to the ground.
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And David said to Ornan, "Give me the site of the threshing floor that I may build on it an altar to the LORD--give it to me at its full price--that the plague may be averted from the people."
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