1 Samuel 21
1 Devit teh Nob kho e vaihma Ahimelek koevah a pha. Ahimelek ni Devit a hmu navah a kalue teh ahni koe nama dueng maw na hui buet touh hai na tawn hoeh namaw telah atipouh.
David fled from there and went to Nob [city to see] Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech trembled when he saw David [because he was afraid that something bad had happened]. He said to David, “Why are you alone? Why have no men come with you?”
2 Devit ni vaihma Ahimelek koe, siangpahrang ni kai koe thaw buet touh na poe. Tawk hane hoi kâ na poe e apinihai panuek sak hanh telah a dei. Hatdawkvah sannaw hie hmuen koe haw e hmuen koe na hruek pouh.
David [deceived Ahimelech] by replying, “The king sent me. But he does not want anyone to know anything about what he sent me to do. I have told my men where [they should meet me].
3 Atuvah na kut dawk bangmaw kaawm. Vaiyei panga touh hoehpawiteh na tawn e pueng na poe telah atipouh.
Now [I want to know], do you have any [food here for me to eat] [IDM]? Could you give me five loaves of bread, or whatever [other food] that you can find?”
4 Vaihma ni Devit koe tami pueng ni ca thai e vaiyei ka kut dawk awm hoeh eiteh, sannaw ni napui koe ma na thoung awh pawiteh, kathounge vaiyei teh ao, atipouh.
The priest answered David, “There is no ordinary bread here, but I have some of the sacred bread [that was placed before Yahweh]. Your men may eat it if they have not slept with [EUP] women [recently].”
5 Devit ni vaihma koe atu hnin thum touh thung teh, napui koehoi kathoung awh katang doeh. Ka tâco awh han nahai na sannaw e hnopai hai a thoung.
David replied, “They have not been near women for many days. I do not allow my men to defile themselves by sleeping with women while they are preparing to fight in battles. They must continue to keep themselves acceptable to God when they are on ordinary trips, and [today they have kept themselves acceptable to God] because now we are doing something very special/important.”
6 Vaihma ni hmaitung e vaiyei hloilah alouke vaiyei ao hoeh dawkvah, kathounge vaiyei hah a poe. Hote hmaitung e vaiyei yueng lah vaiyei katha hruek hanelah BAWIPA hmaitung hoi yo la takhoe toe.
The only bread that the priest had was the sacred bread that had been placed in Yahweh’s presence [in the Sacred tent]. So the priest gave David some of that bread. On that day the priest had taken those loaves from the table and replaced them with (fresh/newly baked) loaves.
7 Hot hnin dawk Sawl e a sannaw thung e tami buet touh BAWIPA hmalah ka tek e ao. A min teh Doeg doeh. Ahni teh Edom tami, Sawl e saring kakhoumkung thung dawk e kacue poung e lah o.
It happened that Doeg, from the Edom people-group, was there on that day to make himself acceptable to Yahweh, [and he saw what Ahimelech did]. He was one of Saul’s officials and the leader of Saul’s shepherds.
8 Devit ni Ahimelek koevah, tahroe thoseh tahloi thoseh, na tat hoeh na maw. Siangpahrang teh huerang a panki dawkvah, tahloi thoseh ka puengcang buet buet touh ka kut dawk ka sin mang hoeh telah atipouh.
David asked Ahimelech, “Do you have a spear or a sword [that I could use]? The king [appointed us to do] this task [and told us to leave] immediately, so I did not have time to bring any weapons.”
9 Vaihma ni Filistin tami Goliath, Elah tanghling dawk na theinae tahloi hah, khenhaw! Ephod hnuklah hni hoi tangoung e sut ao. Na ngai pawiteh hot hah lat, hote hloilah alouke awm hoeh toe telah ati. Devit ni het patetlae tahloi phun awm hoeh, kai na poe telah atipouh.
Ahimelech replied, “I have only the sword that belonged to Goliath [the giant] from the Philistia people-group whom you killed in Elah Valley. It is wrapped in a cloth, and is behind the sacred vest [in the Sacred Tent]. If you want it, take it, because I have no other [weapon] here.” David replied, “Truly, there is no other sword that is [as good] as that one! Give it to me.”
10 Devit ni a thaw teh Sawl hmalah hoi a yawng teh, Gath siangpahrang Akhish koe a cei.
[So Ahimelech gave it to him], and David left there. He [and his men] and went to Gath [city in the Philistia region], to stay with King Achish.
11 Akhish e a sannaw ni ahni koevah, hete tami heh a ram dawk e siangpahrang Devit nahoehmaw, Sawl ni thong touh thong touh a thei teh, Devit ni thong hra, thong hra a thei telah lamtu lahoi a kong hah la lahoi a sak awh e nahoehmaw ati awh.
But the officers of King Achish [objected to David being there. They] said to King Achish, “This man is [RHQ] David, the king of Israel! He is the one [RHQ] whom [our enemies], the [Israeli] people, [honored by] dancing and singing, ‘Saul has killed thousands [of his enemies], but David has killed tens of thousands of them!’”
12 Devit ni hote lawk a lung thung a hruek teh, Gath siangpahrang Akhish teh a taki poung.
David heard what those men were saying, so he was afraid of [what] King Achish [might do to him].
13 Hatdawkvah ahnimae hmalah a sakyoe e naw a kâthung teh hmaitung vah ka pathu patetlah a kâsak. Thonaw hah a takhawi teh a pâkhamuennaw dawk tamtui do do a lawi sak.
So he pretended that he was insane. He started scratching on the gates [of the city] and allowing his saliva to run down his beard.
14 Akhish ni a sannaw koe, khenhaw! tamipathu tie na panue awh nahlangva, bangkong kai koe na thokhai awh.
Then King Achish said to his men, “Look at this man! He is acting like an insane man! Why have you brought him to me?
15 Kai dawk ka pathu e panki teh ka hmalah ka pathu e a kamnue nahane lah maw nangmouh ni ka imthung na kâen sak awh han maw telah a sannaw koe atipouh.
Have you brought him because I do not have enough insane men here already [RHQ]? I do not want [RHQ] him to come into my house!”
