^{10 Ref} David's heart struck him after that he had numbered the people. David said to Yahweh, I have sinned greatly in that which I have done: but now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.

^{11 Ref} When David rose up in the morning, the word of Yahweh came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,

^{12 Ref} Go and speak to David, Thus says Yahweh, I offer you three things: choose you one of them, that I may do it to you.

^{13 Ref} So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? now advise you, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.

^{14 Ref} David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of Yahweh; for his mercies are great; and let me not fall into the hand of man.