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. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no man 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 commanded me to do something, and has said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you. I have sent 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 therefore what is under your hand? Please give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever is available.”
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, “I have no common bread, but there is holy bread; if only 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, and said to him, “Truly, women have been kept from us as usual these three days. When I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was only a common journey. How much more then today shall 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 holy bread; for there was no bread there but the show bread that was taken from before Yahweh, to be replaced with 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 Yahweh; 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 hand spear or sword? For I haven’t brought my sword or 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, “Behold, 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 would like to 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? Didn’t they sing to one another about him in dances, saying, ‘Saul has 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.
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 insane in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on 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 insane. 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? Should this fellow come into my house?”
