¹A Dávid prišiel do Nóba k Achimelechovi, kňazovi. A Achimelech sa tak preľakol, že trasúci sa išiel vústrety Dávidovi a riekol mu: Prečo si len sám, a prečo niet nikoho s tebou?

¹Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?

²Dávid odpovedal Achimelechovi, kňazovi: Kráľ mi rozkázal nejakú vec a riekol mi: Nech nikto nezvie ničoho o veci, pre ktorú ťa posielam a ktorú som ti rozkázal vykonať. A služobníkom som nariadil, aby odišli na to a na to miesto.

²And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know anything of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed the young men to such and such a place.

³Preto teraz, čo máš po ruke? Daj mi do ruky nejakých päť chlebov alebo už čokoľvek, čo sa najde.

³Now therefore what is under thy hand? give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatsoever there is present.

⁴A kňaz odpovedal Dávidovi a riekol: Nemám obecného chleba pod rukou. Je tu iba posvätný chlieb, jestli sa mládenci zachovali aspoň od ženy.

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

⁵Na to odpovedal Dávid a riekol mu: Nie, lež už predtým, ako som vyšiel, bola nám žena neprístupnou, a tedy sú nádoby mládencov sväté. No, je to už aj ináče obecný spôsob, a čo ešte dnes! Bude svätý v nádobe.

⁵And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days; when I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was but a common journey; how much more then to-day shall their vessels be holy?

⁶A tak mu dal kňaz sväté, lebo tam nebolo iného chleba krome chleba predloženia, ktoré to chleby boly odložené zpred tvári Hospodinovej, aby na ich miesto boly položené teplé chleby v deň, v ktorý boly tamtie vzaté.

⁶So the priest gave him holy [bread]; for there was no bread there but the showbread, that was taken from before Jehovah, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

⁷Ale bol tam nejaký muž zo služobníkov Saulových toho dňa, ktorý sa tam bol v shromaždení zdržal pred Hospodinom, a ktorému bolo meno Doég Edomejský, najmožnejší z pastierov, ktorých mal Saul.

⁷Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Jehovah; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chiefest of the herdsmen that belonged to Saul.

⁸A Dávid povedal Achimelechovi: Či nie je niekde pod tvojou rukou kopija alebo meč, lebo som nevzal ani svojho meča, ani inej svojej zbrane do svojej ruky, pretože bola vec kráľova súrna.

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

⁹Na to odpovedal kňaz: Meč Goliáša Filištínskeho, ktorého si zabil v doline Éla, ten hľa, je tu zavinutý v rúchu za efodom, ak si ten vezmeš, nuž vezmi si, lebo nieto tu iného krome toho. A Dávid povedal: Takého nieto, jako je ten; daj mi ho.

⁹And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the vale of Elah, 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.

¹⁰Potom vstal Dávid a utekal toho dňa pred Saulom a prišiel k Achišovi, kráľovi mesta Gát.

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

¹¹A služobníci Achišovi povedali jemu, Achišovi: Či nie je toto Dávid, kráľ zeme? Či to nespievali tomuto v kolotancoch hovoriac: Saul porazil svoje tisíce, ale Dávid svoje desaťtisíce?

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

¹²A Dávid si vzal tie slová k srdcu a bál sa veľmi Achiša, kráľa Gátu,

¹²And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

¹³a preto zmeniac svoj rozum v ich očiach robil sa bláznom súc v ich ruke a čmáral po vrátach brány a púšťal svoje brzgy dolu po svojej brade.

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

¹⁴Vtedy povedal Achiš svojim služobníkom: Hľa, vidíte, že človek blázni, prečo ste ho doviedli ku mne?

¹⁴Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad; wherefore then have ye brought him to me?

¹⁵Či azda nemám dosť bláznov, že ste doviedli tohoto, aby bláznil predo mnou? Či tento má vojsť do môjho domu?

¹⁵Do I lack madmen, that ye have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?