16. Then two women, whores, came to the sovereign, and stood before him.
17. And one woman said, “O my master, this woman and I dwell in the same house. And I gave birth while she was in the house.
18. “And it came to be, the third day after I had given birth, that this woman also gave birth. And we were together. There was no one else with us in the house, only the two of us in the house.
19. “Then this woman’s son died in the night, because she lay on him.
20. “And she rose up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your female servant slept, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
21. “And I rose up in the morning to nurse my son and saw he was dead. But I looked at him closely in the morning, and saw he was not my son whom I had borne.”