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David said to God, "I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now, please take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly."
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"Go and speak to David, saying, 'Thus says the LORD , "I offer you three things; choose for yourself one of them, which I will do to you.""'
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So Gad came to David and said to him, "Thus says the LORD , 'Take for yourself
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either three years of famine, or three months to be swept away before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of the LORD , even pestilence in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.' Now, therefore, consider what answer I shall return to Him who sent me."