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And she arose at midnight*, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaidslept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her deadchild in my bosom.
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And when I rose in the morning to give my childsuck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.
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And the otherwomansaid, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spakebefore the king.
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Then said the king, The onesaith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the othersaith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.