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.”
25. And Dawiḏ gave Ornan six hundred sheqels of gold by weight for the place.
26. And Dawiḏ built there an altar to יהוה, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on יהוה. And He answered him from the heavens by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
27. Then יהוה commanded the messenger, and he returned his sword to its sheath.
28. At that time, when Dawiḏ saw that יהוה had answered him on the threshing-floor of Ornan the Yeḇusite, he slaughtered there,
29. for the Dwelling Place of יהוה and the altar of the burnt offering, which Mosheh had made in the wilderness, were at that time at the high place in Giḇ‛on.
30. But Dawiḏ was unable to go before it to inquire of Elohim, for he was afraid of the sword of the messenger of יהוה.