2 GLT And David said to Ahimelech the priest,“The king has commanded me with a matter and has said to me,‘Do not let a man know anything about the matter which I am sending you, and which I have commanded you.’ And I have caused the young men to know about a certain place, a certain one. BSB BSB: “The king has given me a mission,” David replied. “He told me no one is to know about the mission on which I am sending you. And I have directed my young men to meet me at a certain place.
3 GLT And now what is there under your hand? Give five bread loaves into my hand, or the found thing.” BSB BSB: Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found.”
4 GLT And the priest answered David and said,“There is no common bread toward under my hand. But there is the holy bread, if the young men have kept themselves only from women.” BSB BSB: “There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”
5 GLT And David answered the priest and said to him,“Surely a woman has been kept away with respect to us as yesterday and three days ago, as whenever I have gone out. And the vessels of the men have been holy, even though it was a common journey. And how much more today will it be holy with the vessels!” BSB BSB: David answered, “Women have indeed been kept from us, as is usual when I set out. And the bodies of the young men are holy even on common missions. How much more so today!”
6 GLT And the priest gave to him the holy thing. For bread was not there except the bread of the face, which was removed from before the face of Yahweh, in order to put hot bread on the day it was taken away. BSB BSB: So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before the LORD and replaced with hot bread on the day it was taken away.
7 GLT Now a man from the servants of Saul was there on that day, he was detained before the face of Yahweh. And his name was Doeg the Edomite, a powerful one of the herders who were for Saul. BSB BSB: Now one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the LORD. And his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief shepherd for Saul.
8 GLT And David said to Ahimelech,“Now is there not here under your hand a spear or sword? For both my sword and my weapons I did not take in my hand, because the matter of the king was urgent.” BSB BSB: Then David asked Ahimelech, “Is there not a spear or sword on hand here? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s mission was urgent.”
9 GLT And the priest said,“The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the valley of Elah, behold, it is wrapped in the cloak behind the ephod. If you want to take it for yourself, take, for there is no other except it in this place.” And David said,“There is none like it. Give it to me.” BSB BSB: The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want, you may take it. For there is no other but this one here.” And David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”
10 GLT And David rose and fled on that day from the face of Saul. And he came to Achish the king of Gath. BSB BSB: That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath.
11 GLT And the servants of Achish said to him,“Is this not David the king of the land? Did they not sing with respect to this one in the dances, saying,‘Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands?’” BSB BSB: But the servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David, the king of the land? Did they not sing about him in their dances, saying: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?”
12 GLT And David put these words in his heart and was very afraid from the face of Achish the king of Gath. BSB BSB: Now David took these words to heart and was very much afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
13 GLT And he changed his behavior in their eyes and pretended to be insane in their hand. And he made marks on the doors of the gate and caused his saliva to go down to his beard. BSB BSB: So he changed his behavior before them and feigned madness in their hands; he scratched on the doors of the gate and let his saliva run down his beard.
14 GLT And Achish said to his servants,“Behold, you see a man being insane. Why did you bring him to me? BSB BSB: Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you can see that the man is insane! Why have you brought him to me?
15 GLT Do I lack insane men, so that you have brought this one to be insane near me? Should this one enter into my house?” BSB BSB: Am I in need of madmen, that you have brought this man to rave in my presence? Must this man come into my house?”
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