1 Samuel 21
1 Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was full of fear at meeting David, and said to him, Why are you by yourself, having no man with you?
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?
2 And David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has given me orders and has said to me, Say nothing to anyone about the business on which I am sending you and the orders I have given you: and a certain place has been fixed to which the young men are to go.
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.
3 So now, if you have here five cakes of bread, give them into my hand, or whatever you have.
Agora, pois, que tens á mão? dá-me cinco pães na minha mão, ou o que se achar.
4 And the priest, answering David, said, I have no common bread here but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.
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.
5 And David in answer said to the priest, Certainly women have been kept from us; and as has been done before when I have gone out the arms of the young men were made holy, even though it was a common journey; how much more today will their arms be made holy.
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.
6 So the priest gave him the holy bread: there was no other, only the holy bread which had been taken from before the Lord, so that new bread might be put in its place on the day when it was taken away.
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.
7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, kept back before the Lord; his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the strongest of Saul's runners.
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.
8 And David said to Ahimelech, Have you no sword or spear with you here? for I have come without my sword and other arms, because the king's business had to be done quickly.
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.
9 And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you put to death in the valley of Elah, is here folded in a cloth at the back of the ephod: take that, if you will, for there is no other sword here. And David said, there is no other sword like that; give it to me.
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.
10 Then David got up and went in flight that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish, the king of Gath.
E David levantou-se, e fugiu aquelle dia de diante de Saul, e veiu a Achis, rei de Gath.
11 And the servants of Achish said to him, Is not this David, the king of the land? did they not make songs about him in their dances, saying, Saul has put to death thousands, and David tens of thousands?
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?
12 And David took these words to heart, fearing Achish, the king of Gath.
E David considerou estas palavras no seu animo, e temeu muito diante d'Achis, rei de Gath.
13 So changing his behaviour before them, he made it seem as if he was off his head, hammering on the doors of the town, and letting the water from his mouth go down his chin.
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.
14 Then Achish said to his servants, Look! the man is clearly off his head; why have you let him come before me?
Então disse Achis aos seus creados: Eis que bem vêdes que este homem está louco; porque m'o trouxestes a mim?
15 Are there not enough unbalanced men about me, that you have let this person come and do such tricks before me? is such a man to come into my house?
Faltam-me a mim doidos, para que trouxesseis a este que fizesse doidices diante de mim? ha de este entrar na minha casa?
