¹Nato David usta i ode, a Jonatan se vrati u grad.

¹And David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest; and Ahimelech trembled at meeting David, and said to him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?

²David dođe u Nob k svećeniku Ahimeleku. Ovaj dršćući pođe u susret Davidu i upita ga: "Zašto si sam i nema nikoga s tobom?"

²And David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has commanded me a business, and has said to me, Let no man know anything of the business whereon I send thee, and what I have commanded thee; and I have directed the young men to such and such a place.

³A David odgovori svećeniku Ahimeleku: "Kralj mi je dao nalog i rekao mi: 'Nitko neka ništa ne dozna zašto te šaljem i što sam ti zapovjedio!' A momke sam poslao da me dočekaju na tom i tom mjestu.

³And now what is under thy hand? give me five loaves in my hand, or what may be found.

⁴A sada, ako imaš pri ruci pet hljebova, daj mi ih, ili što god se nađe!"

⁴And the priest answered David and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.

⁵A svećenik odgovori Davidu: "Nemam pri ruci običnoga kruha nego samo svetoga kruha; ali samo ako su se tvoji momci uzdržali od žena."

⁵And David answered the priest and said to him, Yes indeed, women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the [bread] is in a manner common, and the more so, because to-day [new] is hallowed in the vessels.

⁶David odgovori svećeniku ovako: "Sasvim pouzdano! Žene su nam bile uskraćene, kao uvijek kad izlazimo na vojni pohod, i tijela su u momaka čista. Iako je ovo običan put, uistinu su danas čisti tijelom."

⁶And the priest gave him holy [bread]; for there was no bread there but the shew-loaves that were taken from before Jehovah, to put on hot bread in the day when they were taken away.

⁷Tada mu svećenik dade svetoga kruha, jer nije bilo drugoga kruha ondje osim žrtvenoga, onoga koji se uklanjao ispred Jahve da se zamijeni toplim kruhom u dan kad se uzima.

⁷(Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Jehovah; and his name was Doeg, the Edomite, chief of the shepherds that [belonged] to Saul.)

⁸Ondje je istoga dana bio jedan od Šaulovih slugu, zadržao se pred Jahvom; zvao se Doeg Edomac, a bio je nadglednik Šaulovih pastira.

⁸And David said to Ahimelech, And is there not here under thy hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, for the king's business was urgent.

⁹David upita Ahimeleka: "A nemaš li ovdje pri ruci kakvo koplje ili mač? Nisam uzeo sa sobom ni svoga mača ni svoga oružja, jer je kraljev nalog bio hitan."

⁹And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of terebinths, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod; if thou wilt take that, take it; for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that: give it me.

¹⁰A svećenik mu odgovori: "Ovdje je mač Filistejca Golijata, onoga koga si ubio u Terebintskoj dolini; zamotan je u plašt i položen iza oplećka; ako ga hoćeš uzeti, uzmi ga samo, jer drugoga osim njega nema ovdje." A David odvrati: "Takva više nema, daj mi ga!"

¹⁰And David arose, and fled that day from before Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

¹¹Potom David ustade i pobježe onaj dan daleko od Šaula i dođe Akišu, kralju Gata.

¹¹And the servants of Achish said to him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul has smitten his thousands, and David his ten thousands?

¹²A dvorani Akiševi rekoše svome kralju: "Nije li to David, kralj zemlje? To je onaj o kome su plešući pjevali: 'Pobi Šaul svoje tisuće, David na desetke tisuća.'"

¹²And David took to heart these words, and was much afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

¹³David se zamisli o tim riječima i silno se uplaši gatskoga kralja Akiša.

¹³And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scratched on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard.

¹⁴Tada se David poče pretvarati pred njima kao da je umobolan i vladati se kao luđak u njihovim rukama: bubnjao je po vratima i puštao da mu teče slina niz bradu.

¹⁴And Achish said to his servants, Behold, ye see the man is mad: why did ye bring him to me?

¹⁵Tada Akiš reče svojim dvoranima: "Vidite dobro da je čovjek lud! Zašto ga dovodite k meni?

¹⁵have I lack of madmen, that ye have brought this one to rave in my presence? shall this [man] come into my house?

¹⁶Zar nemam dosta budala te mi dovodite ovoga da mi dosađuje svojim ludilom? Zar će taj ući u moju kuću?"