2 Samuel 24.0:

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2 Samuel 24.1: 1 Again Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, count Israel and Judah.”

2 Samuel 24.2: 2 The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the sum of the people.”

2 Samuel 24.3: 3 Joab said to the king, “Now may Yahweh your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”

2 Samuel 24.4: 4 Notwithstanding, the king’s word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king to count the people of Israel.

2 Samuel 24.5: 5 They passed over the Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, and to Jazer;

2 Samuel 24.6: 6 then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; and they came to Dan Jaan, and around to Sidon,

2 Samuel 24.7: 7 and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beersheba.

2 Samuel 24.8: 8 So when they had gone back and forth through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

2 Samuel 24.9: 9 Joab gave up the sum of the counting of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

2 Samuel 24.10: 10 David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to Yahweh, “I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”

2 Samuel 24.11: 11 When David rose up in the morning, Yahweh’s word came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,

2 Samuel 24.12: 12 “Go and speak to David, ‘Yahweh says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”

2 Samuel 24.13: 13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”

2 Samuel 24.14: 14 David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand.”

2 Samuel 24.15: 15 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and seventy thousand men died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba.

2 Samuel 24.16: 16 When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

2 Samuel 24.17: 17 David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father’s house.”

2 Samuel 24.18: 18 Gad came that day to David, and said to him, “Go up, build an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

2 Samuel 24.19: 19 David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded.

2 Samuel 24.20: 20 Araunah looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him. Then Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

2 Samuel 24.21: 21 Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?”

David said, “To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”

2 Samuel 24.22: 22 Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.

2 Samuel 24.23: 23 All this, O king, does Araunah give to the king.” Araunah said to the king, “May Yahweh your God accept you.”

2 Samuel 24.24: 24 The king said to Araunah, “No; but I will most certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

2 Samuel 24.25: 25 David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So Yahweh was entreated for the land, and the plague was removed from Israel.

Tobit 5.0:

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Tobit 5.1: 1 Then Tobias answered and said to him, “Father, I will do all things, whatever you have commanded me.

Tobit 5.2: 2 But how could I receive the money, since I don’t know him?”

Tobit 5.3: 3 He gave him the handwriting, and said to him, “Seek a man who will go with you, and I will give him wages, whiles I yet live; and go and receive the money.”

Tobit 5.4: 4 He went to seek a man, and found Raphael who was an angel;

Tobit 5.5: 5 and he didn’t know it. He said to him, “Can I go with you to Rages of Media? Do you know those places well?”

Tobit 5.6: 6 The angel said to him, “I will go with you. I know the way well. I have lodged with our brother Gabael.”

Tobit 5.7: 7 Tobias said to him, “Wait for me, and I will tell my father.”

Tobit 5.8: 8 He said to him, “Go, and don’t wait. And he went in and said to his father, “Behold, I have found someone who will go with me.”

But he said, “Call him to me, that I may know of what tribe he is, and whether he be a trustworthy man to go with you.”

Tobit 5.9: 9 So he called him, and he came in, and they saluted one another.

Tobit 5.10: 10 And Tobit said to him, “Brother, of what tribe and of what family are you? Tell me.”

Tobit 5.11: 11 He said to him, “Do you seek a tribe and a family, or a hired man which will go with your son?”

And Tobit said to him, “I want to know, brother, your kindred and your name.”

Tobit 5.12: 12 And he said, “I am Azarias, the son of Ananias the great, of your kindred.”

Tobit 5.13: 13 And he said to him, “Welcome, brother. Don’t be angry with me, because I sought to know your tribe and family. You are my brother, of an honest and good lineage; for I knew Ananias and Jathan, the sons of Shemaiah the great, when we went together to Jerusalem to worship, and offered the firstborn, and the tenths of our increase; and they didn’t go astray in the error of our kindred. My brother, you are of a great stock.

Tobit 5.14: 14 But tell me, what wages shall I give you? A drachma a day, and those things that be necessary for you, as to my son?

Tobit 5.15: 15 And moreover, if you both return safe and sound, I will add something to your wages.”

Tobit 5.16: 16 And so they agreed. And he said to Tobias, “Prepare yourself for the journey. May God prosper you.” So his son prepared what was needful for the journey, and his father said to him, “Go with this man; but God, who dwells in heaven, will prosper your journey. May his angel go with you.”

Then they both departed, and the young man’s dog went with them.

Tobit 5.17: 17 But Anna his mother wept, and said to Tobit, “Why have you sent away our child? Isn’t he the staff of our hand, in going in and out before us?

Tobit 5.18: 18 Don’t be greedy to add money to money; but let it be as refuse compared to our child.

Tobit 5.19: 19 For what the Lord has given us to live is enough for us.”

Tobit 5.20: 20 Tobit said to her, “Don’t worry, my sister. He will return safe and sound, and your eyes will see him.

Tobit 5.21: 21 For a good angel will go with him. His journey will be prospered, and he will return safe and sound.”

Tobit 5.22: 22 So she stopped weeping.