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2 Samuel 24:23-24

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23Your Majesty, Araunah Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts King Araunah gives all this to the king.” Araunah also said to him, “May the LORD your God accept you.”

24But the king replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels That is, about 1 1/4 pounds or about 575 grams of silver for them.