Первая книга Царств 21

1 И прииде Давид в Номву ко Авимелеху иерею: и ужасеся Авимелех о пришествии его и рече ему: что яко ты един, и никтоже с тобою?

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 И рече Давид иерею: царь заповеда ми глагол днесь и рече ко мне: никтоже да уразумеет глагола, егоже ради аз посылаю тя и о немже аз заповедаю ти: и отроки оставих на месте глаголемем еммоним:

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 и ныне аще суть у тебе пять хлебы, даждь ми елико имаши.

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

4 И отвеща иерей Давиду и рече: не суть хлебы прости у мене, но точию хлебы у мене священнии: аще сохранени отроцы суть токмо от жены, снедят.

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 И отвеща Давид иерею и рече ему: и (мы) от жен воздержахомся вчера и третияго дне: отнележе изыдох аз на путь, быша вси отроцы очищени, и сей путь нечист, но освятится днесь сосуд ради моих.

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 И даде ему Авимелех иерей хлебы предложения, яко тамо не бе хлеба, но токмо хлебы лица, иже взяты от лица Господня, еже предложитися хлебу теплому, в оньже день взя их.

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 И бе тамо един от отрок Сауловых в день он удержан пред Господем, и имя ему Доик Сирин, (старейшина от пастырь Сауловых, ) пасый мски Сауловы.

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 И рече Давид ко Авимелеху: виждь, аще есть зде у тебе копие или мечь, яко меча моего и оружия моего не взях с собою, яко царево повеление внезапу ми бысть.

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 И рече иерей: се, мечь Голиафа иноплеменника, егоже ты убил еси во юдоли Ила, и той обвит бяше в ризу за ефудом: аще той хощеши взяти, возми себе, несть бо инаго зде кроме сего. И рече Давид: се, несть якоже той: даждь ми его. И даде его ему.

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 И воста Давид, и убеже в той день от лица Саулова, и прииде Давид ко Анхусу царю Гефску.

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

11 И реша отроцы Анхусовы к нему: не сей ли Давид царь земли? Не сему ли изыдоша (жены) ликующыя, глаголющя: победи Саул с тысящами своими, и Давид со тмами своими?

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 И положи Давид глаголы сия в сердцы своем, и убояся зело от лица Анхуса царя Гефска.

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

13 И измени лице свое пред ним, и притворися в день той, и бияше во врата града, яко в тимпан, и падаше на руки своя, и паде у врат града, и слины своя точаше по браде своей.

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 И рече Анхус ко отроком своим: се, видесте мужа неистова, почто его введосте ко мне?

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

15 Еда не имею аз неистовых, яко введосте его, да беснуется предо мною? Сей да не внидет в дом мой.

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?