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The woman in the red veil pleads with open hands while the child remains safely held.
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1 Kings 3:26

Compassion and refusal

Wisdom and the Two Mothers · 1 Kings 3

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26Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because her compassion was stirred for her son, and she said, "Please, my lord, give her the living child, and do not put him to death." But the other said, "It shall be neither mine nor yours; cut him in two."

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