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"Go and say to David, "Thus says the Lord: Three things I offer you; choose one of them, so that I may do it to you.' "
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So Gad came to David and said to him, "Thus says the Lord, "Take your choice:
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either three years of famine; or three months of devastation by your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or three days of the sword of the Lord, pestilence on the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.' Now decide what answer I shall return to the one who sent me."
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Then David said to Gad, "I am in great distress; let me fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercy is very great; but let me not fall into human hands."
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So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel; and seventy thousand persons fell in Israel.