but hear us; you are in the midst of us a prince of God; bury your dead in our choice tombs, for none of us will by any means withhold his tomb from you, so that you should not bury your dead there.

And Araunah looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on before him. And Araunah went forth, and bowed down before the king with his face to the earth.

And Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take and offer to the Lord that which is good in his eyes: behold, [here are] oxen for a whole burnt offering, and the wheels and furniture of the oxen for wood.

And the king said to Araunah, No, but I will surely buy it from you at a fair price, and I will not offer to the Lord my God a whole burnt offering for nothing. So David purchased the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

And David said to Ornan, Give me your place of the threshing floor, and I will build upon it an altar to the Lord: give it to me for its worth in money, and the plague shall cease from [among] the people.

And King David said to Ornan, No, but I will surely buy it for its worth in money- for I will not take your property for the Lord, to offer a whole burnt offering to the Lord without cost [to myself].

But the godly have devised wise [measures], and this counsel shall stand.

to Abraham for a possession, before the sons of Heth, and all that entered into the city.

Whoever kills a man, you shall slay the murderer on the testimony of witnesses; and one witness shall not testify against a soul that he should die.

He shall die on the testimony of two or three witnesses; a man who is put to death shall not be put to death for one witness.

One witness shall not stand to testify against a man for any iniquity, or for any fault, or for any sin which he may commit; by the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, shall every word be established.

And Boaz went up to the gate, and sat there. And behold, the relative passed by, of whom Boaz spoke. And Boaz said to him, Turn aside, [and] sit down here. And he turned aside and sat down.

And I said, I will inform you, saying, Buy it before those that sit, and before the elders of my people: if you will redeem it, redeem it, but if you will not redeem it, [then] tell me, and I shall know; for there is no one beside you to redeem [it], and I am after you. And he said, I am [here], I will redeem it.

And Boaz said to the elders and to all the people, You [are] witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that belonged to Chilion and Mahlon, from the hand of Naomi.

And all the people who were in the gate said, [We are] witnesses; and the elders said, The Lord make your wife who goes into your house, as Rachel and as Leah, who both [together] built the house of Israel, and wrought mightily in Ephratha, and there shall be a name [to you] in Bethlehem.

Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallom your father's brother is coming to you, saying, Buy my field that is in Anathoth: for you [have] the right of redemption, to buy [it].

And I bought the field of Hanamel the son of my father's brother, and I weighed him seventeen shekels of silver.

And I took the book of the purchase that was sealed;

And he said to those standing by, 'Take the mina away from him, and give it to him who has ten minas.'