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| 21 | 1 | And David came to Nobe, to Achimelech, the priest and Achimelech was astonished at David's coming. And he said to him: Why art thou alone, and no man with thee? | venit autem David in Nobe ad Ahimelech sacerdotem et obstipuit Ahimelech eo quod venisset David et dixit ei quare tu solus et nullus est tecum |
| 21 | 2 | And David said to Achimelech, the priest: The king hath commanded me a business, and said: Let no man know the thing for which thou art sent by me, and what manner of commands I have given thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place. | et ait David ad Ahimelech sacerdotem rex praecepit mihi sermonem et dixit nemo sciat rem propter quam a me missus es et cuiusmodi tibi praecepta dederim nam et pueris condixi in illum et illum locum |
| 21 | 3 | Now therefore if thou have any thing at hand, though it were but five loaves, give me, or whatsoever thou canst find. | nunc igitur si quid habes ad manum vel quinque panes da mihi aut quicquid inveneris |
| 21 | 4 | And the priest answered David, saying: I have no common bread at hand, but only holy bread, if the young men be clean, especially from women? | et respondens sacerdos David ait ei non habeo panes laicos ad manum sed tantum panem sanctum si mundi sunt pueri maxime a mulieribus |
| 21 | 5 | And David answered the priest, and said to him: Truly, as to what concerneth women, we have refrained ourselves from yesterday and the day before, when we came out, and the vessels of the young men were holy. Now this way is defiled, but it shall also be sanctified this day in the vessels. | et respondit David sacerdoti et dixit ei equidem si de mulieribus agitur continuimus nos ab heri et nudius tertius quando egrediebamur et fuerunt vasa puerorum sancta porro via haec polluta est sed et ipsa hodie sanctificabitur in vasis |
| 21 | 6 | The priest therefore gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there, but only the loaves of proposition, which had been taken away from before the face of the Lord, that hot loaves might be set up. | 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 |
| 21 | 7 | Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, within the tabernacle of the Lord: and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of Saul's herdsmen. | erat autem ibi vir de servis Saul in die illa intus in tabernaculo Domini et nomen eius Doec Idumeus potentissimus pastorum Saul |
| 21 | 8 | And David said to Achimelech: Hast thou here at hand a spear, or a sword? for I brought not my own sword, nor my own weapons with me, for the king's business required haste. | dixit autem David ad Ahimelech si habes hic ad manum hastam aut gladium quia gladium meum et arma mea non tuli mecum sermo enim regis urguebat |
| 21 | 9 | And the priest said: Lo, here is the sword of Goliath, the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Terebinth, wrapped up in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take this, take it, for here there is no other but this. And David said: There is none like that, give it me. | et dixit sacerdos gladius Goliath Philisthei quem percussisti in valle Terebinthi est involutus pallio post ephod si istum vis tollere tolle neque enim est alius hic absque eo et ait David non est huic alter similis da mihi eum |
| 21 | 10 | And David arose and fled that day from the face of Saul: and came to Achis, the king of Geth: | surrexit itaque David et fugit in die illa a facie Saul et venit ad Achis regem Geth |
| 21 | 11 | And the servants of Achis, when they saw David, said to him: Is not this David, the king of the land? Did they not sing to him in their dances, saying: Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands? | dixeruntque ei servi Achis numquid non iste est David rex terrae nonne huic cantabant per choros dicentes percussit Saul mille et David decem milia |
| 21 | 12 | But David laid up these words in his heart, and was exceedingly afraid at the face of Achis, the king of Geth. | posuit autem David sermones istos in corde suo et extimuit valde a facie Achis regis Geth |
| 21 | 13 | And he changed his countenance before them, and slipt down between their hands: and he stumbled against the doors of the gate, and his spittle ran down upon his beard. | et inmutavit os suum coram eis et conlabebatur inter manus eorum et inpingebat in ostia portae defluebantque salivae eius in barbam |
| 21 | 14 | And Achis said to his servants: You saw the man was mad: why have you brought him to me? | et ait Achis ad servos suos vidistis hominem insanum quare adduxistis eum ad me |
| 21 | 15 | Have we need of mad men, that you have brought in this fellow, to play the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house? | an desunt nobis furiosi quod introduxistis istum ut fureret me praesente hicine ingredietur domum meam |