19. So Dawiḏ went up at the word of Gaḏ, which he had spoken in the Name of יהוה.
20. And Ornan turned and saw the messenger. And his four sons with him hid themselves, and Ornan was threshing wheat.
21. And Dawiḏ came to Ornan, and Ornan looked and saw Dawiḏ, and he went out from the threshing-floor, and bowed down to Dawiḏ with his face to the ground.
22. And Dawiḏ said to Ornan, “Give me the site of the threshing-floor, so that I build an altar to יהוה on it. Give it to me at the complete price, so that the plague is restrained from the people.”
23. And Ornan said to Dawiḏ, “Take it for yourself, and let my master the sovereign do what is good in his eyes. See, I shall give you the cattle for burnt offerings, the threshing implements for wood, and the wheat for the grain offering. I give it all.”
24. And Sovereign Dawiḏ said to Ornan, “No, but I shall certainly buy it at the complete price, for I do not take what is yours for יהוה, nor offer a burnt offering without cost.”