Catholic Public Domain Version
"Therefore, David gave Ornan, for the place, the very just weight of six hundred shekels of gold. "
— 1 Chronicles 21:25, Catholic Public Domain Version
“So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.”
“So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight. ”
“So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.”
“So David bought the place from Ornan for 600 pieces of gold.”
“So David gave to Ornan for the place, six hundred sicles of gold of just weight.”
“So David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.”
“So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.”
And David said to him: “Give this place of your threshing floor to me, so that I may build an altar to the Lord upon it. And you shall accept from me as much money as it is worth, so that the plague may cease from the people.”
But Ornan said to David: “Take it, and may my lord the king do whatever pleases him. Moreover, I give the oxen also as a holocaust, and the plow for wood, and the wheat for a sacrifice. I will offer all freely.”
And king David said to him: “By no means shall it be so. Instead, I will give money to you, as much as it is worth. For I must not take it from you, and thereby offer to the Lord holocausts that cost nothing.”
Therefore, David gave Ornan, for the place, the very just weight of six hundred shekels of gold.
And he built an altar to the Lord there. And he offered holocausts and peace offerings, and he called upon the Lord. And he heeded him by sending fire from heaven upon the altar of the holocaust.
And the Lord instructed the Angel, and he turned his sword back into its sheath.
Then, seeing that the Lord had heeded him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, David immediately immolated victims there.