1 Samuel 21

1 Então veiu David a Nob, ao sacerdote Achimelech; e Achimelech, tremendo, saiu ao encontro de David, e disse-lhe: Porque vens só, e ninguem comtigo?

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?"

2 E disse David ao sacerdote Achimelech: O rei me encommendou um negocio, e me disse: Ninguem saiba d'este negocio, pelo qual eu te enviei, e o qual te ordenei: quanto aos mancebos, apontei-lhes tal e tal logar.

David said to the priest, "The king has commanded me a business, and has said to me, 'Let no man know anything of the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you; and I have arranged to meet the young men at a certain place.'

3 Agora, pois, que tens á mão? dá-me cinco pães na minha mão, ou o que se achar.

Now, if there are five loaves of bread under your control, give them into my hand, or whatever there is."

4 E, respondendo o sacerdote a David, disse: Não tenho pão commum á mão; ha porém pão sagrado, se ao menos os mancebos se abstiveram das mulheres.

And the priest answered David, and said, "There is no common bread in my control, but there is holy bread. If the young men have kept themselves from women, they may eat of it."

5 E respondeu David ao sacerdote, e lhe disse: Sim, em boa fé, as mulheres se nos vedaram desde hontem: e ante hontem, quando eu sahi, os vasos dos mancebos tambem eram sanctos: e em alguma maneira é pão commum, quanto mais que hoje se sanctificará outro nos vasos.

And David answered the priest, and said to him, "Truly women have been kept from us as always when I set out. All the young men are holy, even when it is an ordinary mission. So how much more today will their vessels be holy?"

6 Então o sacerdote lhe deu o pão sagrado, porquanto não havia ali outro pão senão os pães da proposição, que se tiraram de diante do Senhor para se pôr ali pão quente no dia em que aquelle se tirasse.

So the priest gave him what had been consecrated, for there was no bread there but the show bread, that had been removed before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

7 Estava, porém, ali n'aquelle dia um dos creados de Saul, detido perante o Senhor, e era seu nome Doeg, idumeo, o mais poderoso dos pastores de Saul.

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

8 E disse David a Achimelech: Não tens aqui á mão lança ou espada alguma? porque não trouxe á mão nem a minha espada nem as minhas armas, porque o negocio do rei era apressado.

David said to Ahimelech, "Isn't there here under your control spear or sword? For I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste."

9 E disse o sacerdote: A espada de Goliath, o philisteo, a quem tu feriste no valle do carvalho, eis que aquella aqui está envolta n'um panno detraz do ephod: se tu a queres tomar, toma-a, porque nenhuma outra ha aqui, senão aquella. E disse David: Não ha outra similhante; dá-m'a.

The priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, look, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind an ephod. If you will take that, take it; for there is no other except that here." David said, "There is none like that. Give it to me."

10 E David levantou-se, e fugiu aquelle dia de diante de Saul, e veiu a Achis, rei de Gath.

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

11 Porém os creados de Achis lhe disseram: Não é este David, o rei da terra? não se cantava d'este nas danças, dizendo: Saul feriu os seus milhares, porém David os seus dez milhares?

The servants of Achish said to him, "Isn't this David the king of the land? Did they not sing one to another about him in dances, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?'"

12 E David considerou estas palavras no seu animo, e temeu muito diante d'Achis, rei de Gath.

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

13 Pelo que se contrafez diante dos olhos d'elles, e fez-se como doido entre as suas mãos, e esgravatava nas portas do portal, e deixava correr a saliva pela barba.

He changed his behavior before them, and pretended to be mad in their hands, and drummed on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle run down his beard.

14 Então disse Achis aos seus creados: Eis que bem vêdes que este homem está louco; porque m'o trouxestes a mim?

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

15 Faltam-me a mim doidos, para que trouxesseis a este que fizesse doidices diante de mim? ha de este entrar na minha casa?

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