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?

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?

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 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.

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

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

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 the young men have kept themselves at least 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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 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.

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 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.

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

¹⁰And David arose, and fled that day from before 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 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 Dávid si vzal tie slová k srdcu a bál sa veľmi Achiša, kráľa Gátu,

¹²And David took to heart these words, and was much 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 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.

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

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

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

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