1 Samuel 21
1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said to him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?
Venit autem David in Nobe ad Achimelech sacerdotem: et obstupuit Achimelech, eo quod venisset David. Et dixit ei: Quare tu solus, et nullus est tecum?
2 And David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said to me, Let no man know any thing of the business about which I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.
Et ait David ad Achimelech sacerdotem: Rex præcepit mihi sermonem, et dixit: Nemo sciat rem, propter quam missus es a me, et cuiusmodi præcepta tibi dederim: nam et pueris condixi in illum et illum locum.
3 Now therefore what is under thy hand? give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or what there is present.
Nunc ergo si quid habes ad manum, vel quinque panes, da mihi, aut quidquid inveneris.
4 And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.
Et respondens sacerdos ad David, ait illi: Non habeo laicos panes ad manum, sed tantum panem sanctum: si mundi sunt pueri, maxime a mulieribus?
5 And David answered the priest, and said to him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.
Et respondit David sacerdoti, et dixit ei: Equidem, si de mulieribus agitur: continuimus nos ab heri et nudiustertius, quando egrediebamur, et fuerunt vasa puerorum sancta. Porro via hæc polluta est, sed et ipsa hodie sanctificabitur in vasis.
6 So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the showbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
Dedit ergo ei sacerdos sanctificatum panem. Neque enim erat ibi panis, nisi tantum panes propositionis, qui sublati fuerant a facie Domini, ut ponerentur panes calidi.
7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chief of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.
Erat autem ibi vir quidam de servis Saul, in die illa, intus in tabernaculo Domini: et nomen eius Doeg Idumæus, potentissimus pastorum Saul.
8 And David said to Ahimelech, And is there not here under thy hand a spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.
Dixit autem David ad Achimelech: Si habes hic ad manum hastam, aut gladium? Quia gladium meum, et arma mea non tuli mecum. Sermo enim regis urgebat.
9 And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other except that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it to me.
Et dixit sacerdos: Ecce hic gladius Goliath Philisthæi, quem percussisti in Valle Terebinthi, est involutus pallio post ephod: si istum vis tollere, tolle. Neque enim hic est alius absque eo. Et ait David: Non est huic alter similis, da mihi eum.
10 And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
Surrexit itaque David, et fugit in die illa a facie Saul: et venit ad Achis regem Geth:
11 And the servants of Achish said to him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
dixeruntque servi Achis ad eum cum vidissent David: Numquid non iste est David, rex terræ? Nonne huic cantabant per choros, dicentes: Percussit Saul mille, et David decem millia?
12 And David laid up these words in his heart, and was greatly afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
Posuit autem David sermones istos in corde suo, et extimuit valde a facie Achis regis Geth.
13 And he changed his behaviour before them, and pretended to be mad in their hands, and made marks on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
Et immutavit os suum coram eis, et collabebatur inter manus eorum: et impingebat in ostia portæ, defluebantque salivæ eius in barbam.
14 Then said Achish to his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: why then have ye brought him to me?
Et ait Achis ad servos suos: Vidistis hominem insanum: quare adduxistis eum ad me?
15 Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
An desunt nobis furiosi, quod introduxistis istum, ut fureret me præsente? Hiccine ingredietur domum meam?
