21. The next morning, when I woke up and was going to feed my baby, I saw that it was dead. I looked at it more closely and saw that it was not my child.”
22. But the other woman said, “No! The living child is mine, and the dead one is yours!”The first woman answered, “No! The dead child is yours, and the living one is mine!”And so they argued before the king.
23. Then King Solomon said, “Each of you claims that the living child is hers and that the dead child belongs to the other one.”
24. He sent for a sword, and when it was brought,
25. he said, “Cut the living child in two and give each woman half of it.”
26. The real mother, her heart full of love for her son, said to the king, “Please, Your Majesty, don't kill the child! Give it to her!”But the other woman said, “Don't give it to either of us; go ahead and cut it in two.”