¹And Satan stood up against Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] , and provoked David [beloved] to number Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] .

²And David [beloved] said to Yo’av [Yehovah is father] and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] from Be’er-sheva [Well of the sevenfold Oath] even to Dan [Judge] ; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know [it] .

³And Yo’av [Yehovah is father] answered, The Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) make his people an hundred times so many more as they [be] : but, my lord the king, [are] they not all my lord’s servants? why then does my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] ?

⁴Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Yo’av [Yehovah is father] . For what reason Yo’av [Yehovah is father] departed, and went throughout all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] , and came to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] .

⁵And Yo’av [Yehovah is father] gave the sum of the number of the people unto David [beloved] . And all [they of] Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] [was] four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

⁶But Levi (Levite) [Adhesion, Joiner] and Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] counted he not among them: for the king’s word was abominable to Yo’av [Yehovah is father] .

⁷And God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] .

⁸And David [beloved] said unto God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] , I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech (to call upon; appeal; beg) youi , do away the iniquity of youi servant; for I have done very foolishly.

⁹And the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) spoke unto Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort] , David’s [beloved] ’s seer, saying,

¹⁰Go and tell David [beloved] , saying, Thus says the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , I offer youi three [things] : choose youi one of them, that I may do [it] unto youi .

¹¹So Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort] came to David [beloved] , and said unto him, Thus says the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , Choose youi

¹²Either three years’ famine; or three months to be destroyed before youri foes, while that the sword of youri enemies overtake [you ] ; or else three days the sword of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) destroying throughout all the coasts of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] . Now therefore advise yourself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

¹³And David [beloved] said unto Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort] , I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) ; for very great [are] his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.

¹⁴So the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) sent pestilence upon Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] : and there fell of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] seventy thousand men.

¹⁵And God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] sent an angel unto Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now youi hand. And the angel of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan [light was perpetuated] the Y’vusi [Threshers] .

¹⁶And David [beloved] lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] . Then David [beloved] and the elders [of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], who were] clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.

¹⁷And David [beloved] said unto God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] , [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 youi hand, I pray youi , O Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) my God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] , be on me, and on my father’s house; but not on youi people, that they should be plagued.

¹⁸Then the angel of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) commanded Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort] to say to David [beloved] , that David [beloved] should go up, and set up an altar unto the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in the threshingfloor of Ornan [light was perpetuated] the Y’vusi [Threshers] .

¹⁹And David [beloved] went up at the saying of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort] , which he spoke in the name of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) .

²⁰And Ornan [light was perpetuated] turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan [light was perpetuated] was threshing wheat.

²¹And as David [beloved] came to Ornan [light was perpetuated] , Ornan [light was perpetuated] looked and saw David [beloved] , and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David [beloved] with [his] face to the ground.

²²Then David [beloved] said to Ornan [light was perpetuated] , Grant me the place of [this] threshingfloor, that I may build an altar in it unto the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) : youi shall grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be detained (held) from the people.

²³And Ornan [light was perpetuated] said unto David [beloved] , Take [it] to youi , and let my lord the king do [that which is] good in his eyes: lo, I give [you ] the oxen [also] for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.

²⁴And king David [beloved] said to Ornan [light was perpetuated] , No; but I will truly buy it for the full price: for I will not take [that] which [is] youi for the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , nor offer burnt offerings without cost.

²⁵So David [beloved] gave to Ornan [light was perpetuated] for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.

²⁶And David [beloved] built there an altar unto the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) ; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.

²⁷And the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.

²⁸At that time when David [beloved] saw that the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan [light was perpetuated] the Y’vusi [Threshers] , then he sacrificed there.

²⁹For the tabernacle of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , which Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, [were] at that season in the high place at Giv’on [Hill City] .

³⁰But David [beloved] could not go before it to enquire of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] : for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) .