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The Unauthorized Census and the Threshing Floor Portal
And Satan stood up against Yashar'al, and provoked Dawid to number Yashar'al.
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The Command to Number the Matrix
And Dawid said to Yoab and to the rulers of the people, "Go, number Yashar'al from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it."
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And Yoab answered, "𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 make His people a hundred times so many more as they be: but, my adun the king, are they not all my adun's servants? why then doth my adun require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Yashar'al?"
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Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Yoab. Wherefore Yoab departed, and went throughout all Yashar'al, and came to Yarushalayim.
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The Sum of the Terrestrial Grid
And Yoab gave the sum of the number of the people unto Dawid. And all they of Yashar'al were a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Yahudah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.
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The Preservation of the Priestly Frequency
But Lawiy and Binyamiyn counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Yoab.
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The Judicial Displeasure
And Alahiym was displeased with this thing; therefore He smote Yashar'al.
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And Dawid said unto Alahiym, "I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech Thee, do away the iniquity of Thy servant; for I have done very foolishly."
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The Celestial Ultimatum
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 spake unto Gad, Dawid's seer, saying,
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"Go and tell Dawid, saying, Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee."
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So Gad came to Dawid, and said unto him, "Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, Choose thee:
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Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, even the pestilence, in the land, and the Malakh of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 destroying throughout all the coasts of Yashar'al. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to Him that sent me."
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And Dawid said unto Gad, "I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄; for very great are His mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man."
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The Deployment of the Pestilence
So 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 sent pestilence upon Yashar'al: and there fell of Yashar'al seventy thousand men.
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The Intervention at the Yebusite Portal
And Alahiym sent a Malakh unto Yarushalayim to destroy it: and as he was destroying, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 beheld, and He repented Him of the evil, and said to the Malakh that destroyed, "It is enough, stay now thy hand." And the Malakh of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Yebusite.
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And Dawid lifted up his eyes, and saw the Malakh of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Yarushalayim. Then Dawid and the elders of Yashar'al, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
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And Dawid said unto Alahiym, "Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let Thine hand, I pray Thee, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 my Alahiym, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on Thy people, that they should be plagued."
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The Altar of the Paradigm Shift
Then the Malakh of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 commanded Gad to say to Dawid, that Dawid should go up, and set up an altar unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Yebusite.
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And Dawid went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the Name of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
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And Ornan turned back, and saw the Malakh; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
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And as Dawid came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw Dawid, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to Dawid with his face to the ground.
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Then Dawid said to Ornan, "Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people."
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And Ornan said unto Dawid, "Take it to thee, and let my adun the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all."
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The Legality of the Purchase
And king Dawid said to Ornan, "Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, nor offer burnt offerings without cost."
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So Dawid gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
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The Celestial Fire Override
And Dawid built there an altar unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄; and He answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.
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And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 commanded the Malakh; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.
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The Establishment of the New Coordinate
At that time when Dawid saw that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Yebusite, then he sacrificed there.
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The Bifurcation of the Sanctuaries
For the tabernacle of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, which Mushah made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibon.
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But Dawid could not go before it to inquire of Alahiym: for he was afraid because of the sword of the Malakh of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.