And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing-floor of thee, to build an altar unto Jehovah, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
and he yede out, and worschipide þe kyng bi low cheer to þe erþe; and seide, What cause is, þat my lord þe kyng cometh to his seruaunt? To whom Dauid seide, Þat Y bie of þee þe corn floor, and bilde an auter to þe Lord, and þe sleynge ceesse, which is cruel in þe puple.