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At nangyari sa kinahapunan, na si David ay bumangon sa kaniyang higaan, at lumakad sa bubungan ng bahay ng hari: at mula sa bubungan ay kaniyang nakita ang isang babae na naliligo; at ang babae ay totoong napakagandang masdan.

At nagsugo si David, at nagpasiyasat tungkol sa babae. At sinabi ng isa, Hindi ba ito ay si Bath-sheba na anak ni Eliam, na asawa ni Uria na Hetheo?

At si David ay nagsugo ng mga sugo, at kinuha siya; at siya'y pumaroon sa kaniya, at kaniyang sinipingan siya (sapagka't siya'y malinis sa kaniyang karumihan;) at siya'y bumalik sa kaniyang bahay.

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One evening David got up from his bed. He walked around on the roof[a] of his palace. While he was on the roof, he saw a woman bathing. She was very beautiful. So David sent his servants to find out who she was. A servant answered, “That woman is Bathsheba daughter of Eliam. She is the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” David sent messengers to bring Bathsheba to him. When she came to him, he had physical relations with her. (Now Bathsheba had purified herself from her monthly period.) Then she went back to her house.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:2 roof In Bible times houses were built with flat roofs. The roof was used for drying things such as flax and fruit. And it was used as an extra room, as a place for worship and as a place to sleep in the summer.