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?

Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech was shaking in fear when he met David, and said to him, "Why are you alone, and no one with you?"

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 the priest, "The king has given me orders, and he instructed me, 'No one must know of the matter about which I send you, or about your orders; and I have arranged to meet the young men at a certain place.'

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

Now, if there are five loaves of bread under your control, give them into my hand, or whatever there is."

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, and said, "There is no common bread in my control, but there is holy bread. If the young men have kept themselves from women, they may eat of it."

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 women have been kept from us as always when I set out. All the young men are holy, even when it is an ordinary mission. So how much more today will their vessels be holy?"

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.

So the priest gave him what had been consecrated, for there was no bread there but the show bread, that had been removed before YHWH, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

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, detained before YHWH; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.

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.

David said to Ahimelech, "Isn't there here under your control spear or sword? For I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because 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.

The priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, look, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind an ephod. If you will take that, take it; for there is no other except that here." David said, "There is none like that. Give it to me."

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

David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

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?

The servants of Achish said to him, "Isn't this David the king of the land? Did they not sing one to another about him in dances, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?'"

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

David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

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.

He changed his behavior before them, and pretended to be mad in their hands, and drummed on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle run down his beard.

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

Then Achish said to his servants, "Look, you see the man is mad. Why then 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?

Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?"