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And the other woman said, No, but the living my son, and the dead thy son. So they spoke before the king.
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and the king said to them, Thou sayest, This my son, the living , and this woman's son the dead one: and thou sayest, No, but the living my son, and the dead thy son.
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And the king said, Fetch a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
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And the king said, Divide the live child, the suckling, in two; and give half of it to one, and half of it to the other.
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And the woman whose the living child was, answered and said to the king, (for her bowels yearned over her son) and she said, I pray thee, lord, give her the child, and in nowise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor hers; divide .
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.