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She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

1 Kings 3:20 · WEB

This verse in other languages

ગુજરાતી1 રાજાઓ ૩:૨૦
તેથી તેણે મધરાત્રે ઊઠીને આ તમારી દાસી ઊંઘતી હતી એટલામાં મારા દીકરાને મારી પાસેથી લઈ જઈને પોતાની પાસે સુવડાવ્યો અને તેના મરણ પામેલા દીકરાને મારી પાસે સુવડાવ્યો.
हिन्दी1 राजाओं ३:२०
तब इसने आधी रात को उठकर, जब तेरी दासी सो ही रही थी, तब मेरा लड़का मेरे पास से लेकर अपनी छाती में रखा, और अपना मरा हुआ बालक मेरी छाती में लिटा दिया।

In context

18The third day after I delivered, this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house.

19This woman’s child died in the night, because she lay on it.

20She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

21When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, he was dead; but when I had looked at him in the morning, behold, it was not my son whom I bore.”

22The other woman said, “No! But the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.” The first one said, “No! But the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.” They argued like this before the king.

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