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"Go and tell David My servant, 'Thus says the LORD, "You shall not build a house for Me to dwell in;

"Now, therefore, thus shall you say to My servant David, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, "I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be leader over My people Israel.

"Go and speak to David, saying, 'Thus says the LORD, "I offer you three things; choose for yourself one of them, which I will do to you."'"

So Gad came to David and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, 'Take for yourself