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-Yehovah (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-Elohim (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-Elohim (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-Yehovah (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-Yehovah (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-Yehovah (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 [youⁱ]; or else three days the sword of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD-Yehovah (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-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); for very great [are] his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.

14So the LORD-Yehovah (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-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] sent an angel unto Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD-Yehovah (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-Yehovah (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-Yehovah (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-Elohim (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-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) my God-Elohim (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-Yehovah (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-Yehovah (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-Yehovah (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-Yehovah (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 [youⁱ] 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-Yehovah (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-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering. 27And the LORD-Yehovah (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-Yehovah (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-Yehovah (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-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).