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 see Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling and said to him, “Why are you alone and have 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.
David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has sent me on a mission and has said to me, 'Let no one know anything about the business I am sending you, and what I have commanded you.' I have directed the young men to a certain place.
3 Agora, pois, que tens à 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 is here.”
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.
The priest answered David and said, “There is no ordinary bread on hand, but there is holy bread—if 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 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.
David answered the priest, “Surely women have been kept from us for the past three days, as usual when I set out. The things belonging to the men have been set apart even on ordinary missions. How much more today will what they have be set apart!”
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 the bread that was set apart. For there was no bread there except the bread of the presence, which was removed from before Yahweh, in order to put hot bread in its place on the day 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 one of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh. His name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief 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.
David said to Ahimelech, “Now is there not here on hand any spear or sword? For I 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 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, is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want to take that, take it, for there is no other weapon here.” David said, “There is no other sword like that one; 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 from 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?
Achish's servants said to him, “Is not this David, the king of the land? Did they not sing to one another about him in dances, 'Saul has killed 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.
David took these words to 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 insane in their hands; he made marks on the doors of the gate and let his saliva 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 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, so that you have brought this fellow to behave like one in my presence? Will this fellow really come into my house?”
