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The wisdom of solomon

This story is from the Bible.
It is a famous story of the wisdom of Solomon,
who was king in Israel for forty years during the tenth century B.C.

Two women came to King Solomon with two little babies, one dead and the other living.
Each woman said that the living child was her own, and that the dead child belonged to the other woman.

One of the women explained, "We two women were sleeping together with our two children in the same bed. And the other woman's child died. So she put her dead child next to me while I was asleep, and she took my child.

In the morning I saw that it was not my child. She said that the dead child was mine and that the living child was hers.

Then the other woman answered, "That's not true. The dead baby is hers,
and the living baby is mine. She's trying to take it away from me."

Young King Solomon listened to the two women. Then he said, "Bring me a sword."

They brought him a sword, and Solomon announced, "Take this sword, and cut the living baby in half. Give each mother half of the baby."

One of the women cried out immediately, "Oh, don't kill the baby. Let the other woman have it. Let the baby live."

But the other woman responded, "No, cut the child in half, and divide it between us!"

Then Solomon decided. "Give the living child to the woman who did not want the baby
cut in half and killed. She is the true mother."

All the people were astounded at how wise King Solomon was.