< 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. And when Ahimelech met David, he trembled and asked him, “Why are you alone? Why is no one 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.
“The king has given me a mission,” David replied. “He told me no one is to know about the mission or charge. And I have directed my young men to meet me at a certain place.
3 Agora, pois, que tens á mão? dá-me cinco pães na minha mão, ou o que se achar.
Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found.”
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.
“There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”
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.
David answered, “Women have indeed been kept from us, as is usual when I set out. And the equipment of the young men is holy, as it is even on common missions, and all the more at this time.”
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 the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before the LORD and replaced with hot bread on the day 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 one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the LORD. And his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief shepherd for 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.
Then David asked Ahimelech, “Is there not a spear or sword on hand here? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business was urgent.”
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 replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want, you may take it. For there is no other but this one.” And David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”
10 E David levantou-se, e fugiu aquelle dia de diante de Saul, e veiu a Achis, rei de Gath.
That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish 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?
But the servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David, the king of the land? Did they not sing about him in their dances, saying: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?”
12 E David considerou estas palavras no seu animo, e temeu muito diante d'Achis, rei de Gath.
Now David took these words to heart and was very much 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.
So he changed his behavior before them and feigned madness in their hands; he scratched on the doors of the gate and let his saliva 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 can see that the man is insane! Why 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?
Am I in need of madmen, that you have brought this man to rave in my presence? Must this man come into my house?”

< 1 Samuel 21 >