The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was
not my son, which I did bear.
KI1 3:22 And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and
the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the
living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.
KI1 3:23 Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth,
and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the
dead, and my son is the living.
KI1 3:24 And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword
before the king.
KI1 3:25 And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give
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