1 Samuel 21

1 Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no man with you?”

И прииде Давид в Номву ко Авимелеху иерею: и ужасеся Авимелех о пришествии его и рече ему: что яко ты един, и никтоже с тобою?

2 David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has commanded me to do something, and has said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you. I have sent the young men to a certain place.’

И рече Давид иерею: царь заповеда ми глагол днесь и рече ко мне: никтоже да уразумеет глагола, егоже ради аз посылаю тя и о немже аз заповедаю ти: и отроки оставих на месте глаголемем еммоним:

3 Now therefore what is under your hand? Please give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever is available.”

и ныне аще суть у тебе пять хлебы, даждь ми елико имаши.

4 The priest answered David, and said, “I have no common bread, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”

И отвеща иерей Давиду и рече: не суть хлебы прости у мене, но точию хлебы у мене священнии: аще сохранени отроцы суть токмо от жены, снедят.

5 David answered the priest, and said to him, “Truly, women have been kept from us as usual these three days. When I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was only a common journey. How much more then today shall their vessels be holy?”

И отвеща Давид иерею и рече ему: и (мы) от жен воздержахомся вчера и третияго дне: отнележе изыдох аз на путь, быша вси отроцы очищени, и сей путь нечист, но освятится днесь сосуд ради моих.

6 So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the show bread that was taken from before Yahweh, to be replaced with hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

И даде ему Авимелех иерей хлебы предложения, яко тамо не бе хлеба, но токмо хлебы лица, иже взяты от лица Господня, еже предложитися хлебу теплому, в оньже день взя их.

7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.

И бе тамо един от отрок Сауловых в день он удержан пред Господем, и имя ему Доик Сирин, (старейшина от пастырь Сауловых, ) пасый мски Сауловы.

8 David said to Ahimelech, “Isn’t there here under your hand spear or sword? For I haven’t brought my sword or my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.”

И рече Давид ко Авимелеху: виждь, аще есть зде у тебе копие или мечь, яко меча моего и оружия моего не взях с собою, яко царево повеление внезапу ми бысть.

9 The priest said, “Behold, the sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you would like to take that, take it, for there is no other except that here.” David said, “There is none like that. Give it to me.”

И рече иерей: се, мечь Голиафа иноплеменника, егоже ты убил еси во юдоли Ила, и той обвит бяше в ризу за ефудом: аще той хощеши взяти, возми себе, несть бо инаго зде кроме сего. И рече Давид: се, несть якоже той: даждь ми его. И даде его ему.

10 David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

И воста Давид, и убеже в той день от лица Саулова, и прииде Давид ко Анхусу царю Гефску.

11 The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David the king of the land? Didn’t they sing to one another about him in dances, saying, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands’?”

И реша отроцы Анхусовы к нему: не сей ли Давид царь земли? Не сему ли изыдоша (жены) ликующыя, глаголющя: победи Саул с тысящами своими, и Давид со тмами своими?

12 David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

И положи Давид глаголы сия в сердцы своем, и убояся зело от лица Анхуса царя Гефска.

13 He changed his behavior before them and pretended to be insane in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard.

И измени лице свое пред ним, и притворися в день той, и бияше во врата града, яко в тимпан, и падаше на руки своя, и паде у врат града, и слины своя точаше по браде своей.

14 Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you see the man is insane. Why then have you brought him to me?

И рече Анхус ко отроком своим: се, видесте мужа неистова, почто его введосте ко мне?

15 Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Should this fellow come into my house?”

Еда не имею аз неистовых, яко введосте его, да беснуется предо мною? Сей да не внидет в дом мой.