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  • 2 Samuel 12:4
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 4 Later a visitor came to the rich man, but he would not take any of his own sheep and cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”+

  • 2 Samuel 12:4
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 4 After a while a visitor came to the rich man, but he spared taking some from his own sheep and his own cattle to get such ready for the traveler that had come in to him. So he took the female lamb of the man of little means and got it ready for the man that had come in to him.”+

  • 2 Samuel 12:4
    The Bible in Living English
    • 4 And a chance guest came to the rich man; and he could not bear to take any of his sheep or cattle to cook for the traveler that he had had come to him, but took the poor man’s lamb and cooked it for the man that had come to him.”

  • 2 Samuel 12:4
    American Standard Version
    • 4 And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him, but took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.

  • 2 Samuel 12:4
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 4 Now there came a traveller to the rich man, but he thought it a pity to take of his own flock, or his own herd, to make ready for the wayfarer who had come to him,—so he took the lamb of his poor neighbour, and made ready for the man who had come to him.

  • 2 Samuel 12:4
    King James Version
    • 4 And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.

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