1 Samuel 21

1 Então veio David a Nob, ao sacerdote Achimelech; e Achimelech, tremendo, saiu ao encontro de David, e disse-lhe: Porque vens só, e ninguém contigo?

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?

2 E disse David ao sacerdote Achimelech: O rei me encomendou um negócio, e me disse: ninguém saiba deste negócio, pelo qual eu te enviei, e o qual te ordenei: quanto aos mancebos, apontei-lhes tal e tal lugar.

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.

3 Agora, pois, que tens à mão? dá-me cinco pães na minha mão, ou o que se achar.

Now therefore if thou have any thing at hand, though it were but five loaves, give me, or whatsoever thou canst find.

4 E, respondendo o sacerdote a David, disse: Não tenho pão comum à mão; há porém pão sagrado, se ao menos os mancebos se abstiveram das mulheres.

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?

5 E respondeu David ao sacerdote, e lhe disse: Sim, em boa fé, as mulheres se nos vedaram desde ontem: e ante ontem, quando eu saí, os vasos dos mancebos também eram santos: e em alguma maneira é pão comum, quanto mais que hoje se santificará outro nos vasos.

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.

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 aquele se tirasse.

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.

7 Estava, porém, ali naquele dia um dos criados de Saul, detido perante o Senhor, e era seu nome Doeg, idumeu, o mais poderoso dos pastores de Saul.

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.

8 E disse David a Achimelech: Não tens aqui à mão lança ou espada alguma? porque não trouxe à mão nem a minha espada nem as minhas armas, porque o negócio do rei era apressado.

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.

9 E disse o sacerdote: A espada de Goliath, o philisteu, a quem tu feriste no vale do carvalho, eis que aquela aqui está envolta num pano detraz do éfode: se tu a queres tomar, toma-a, porque nenhuma outra há aqui, senão aquela. E disse David: Não há outra semelhante; dá-ma.

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 is no other but this. And David said: There is none like that, give it me.

10 E David levantou-se, e fugiu aquele dia de diante de Saul, e veio a Achis, rei de Gath.

And David arose and fled that day from the face of Saul: and came to Achis the king of Geth:

11 Porém os criados de Achis lhe disseram: Não é este David, o rei da terra? não se cantava deste nas danças, dizendo: Saul feriu os seus milhares, porém David os seus dez milhares?

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?

12 E David considerou estas palavras no seu ânimo, e temeu muito diante de Achis, rei de Gath.

But David laid up these words in his heart, and was exceedingly afraid at the face of Achis the king of Geth.

13 Pelo que se contrafez diante dos olhos deles, e fez-se como doido entre as suas mãos, e esgravatava nas portas do portal, e deixava correr a saliva pela barba.

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.

14 Então disse Achis aos seus criados: Eis que bem vêdes que este homem está louco; porque mo trouxestes a mim?

And Achis said to his servants: You saw the man was mad: why have you brought him to me?

15 Faltam-me a mim doidos, para que trouxesseis a este que fizesse doidices diante de mim? há de este entrar na minha casa?

Have we need of madmen, that you have brought in this fellow, to play the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?