1Then came David 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?”
1大衛在挪伯獲亞希米勒幫助大衛到了挪伯祭司亞希米勒那裡，亞希米勒戰戰兢兢地迎接大衛，對他說：“你為甚麼獨自一人，沒有人跟隨你呢？”（本節在《馬索拉抄本》為21:2）
2David 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 about which I send you, and what I have commanded you; and I have appointed the young men to such and such a place.’
2大衛對亞希米勒祭司說：“王吩咐我作一件事，對我說：‘我差派你，吩咐你去辦的這事，你不要讓任何人知道，我已經指示我的僕人在某地會面。’
3Now therefore what is under your hand? Give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever there is present.”
3現在你手中有甚麼？求你給我五個餅，或是別的食物。”
4The 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.”
4祭司回答大衛：“我手中沒有普通的餅，只有聖餅。只有那些沒有親近過女人的年輕人，才可以吃的。”
5David answered the priest, and said to him, “Truly, 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 today shall their vessels be holy?”
5大衛回答祭司說：“像以往我出征的時候一樣，這次我們出征前，確實沒有親近女人。雖然這是一次普通的任務，眾僕人的器皿還是清潔的，何況今天這些器皿更加是清潔的。”
6So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the show bread, that was taken from before Yahweh, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
6於是祭司把聖餅給他，因為在那裡沒有別的餅，只有陳設餅，就是那些剛從耶和華面前拿下來，為要換上熱的。
7Now 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.
7那天有一個掃羅的臣僕在那裡，留在耶和華面前。他名叫多益，是以東人，是掃羅牧羊人中的領袖。
8David said to Ahimelech, “Isn’t there here under your hand spear or sword? For I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.”
8大衛問亞希米勒：“你手下有槍有刀沒有？因為王的事很急迫，所以我手裡連刀劍或其他武器都沒有帶來。”
9The priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it; for there is no other except that here.” David said, “There is none like that. Give it to me.”
9祭司回答：“有一把刀，是你從前在以拉谷擊殺的那非利士人歌利亞的刀。這刀用布包著，放在以弗得後面，你若是要拿去自用，就拿去吧，因為這裡除了這刀以外，再沒有別的武器了。”大衛說：“沒有比這更好的刀了，請你給我吧！”
10David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
10大衛在迦特裝瘋那一天大衛起來，從掃羅面前逃走，到了迦特王亞吉那裡。
11The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David the king of the land? Didn’t they sing one to another about him in dances, saying, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?’”
11亞吉的臣僕對亞吉說：“這不是那地的王大衛嗎？那裡的婦女不是指著他跳舞歌唱說：‘掃羅殺死千千，大衛殺死萬萬’嗎？”
12David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
12大衛把這些話記在心裡，他非常怕迦特王亞吉，
13He changed his behavior before them, and pretended to be mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard.
13就在眾人面前假裝神智不健全，在他們手下裝瘋，在城門的門扇上胡亂塗寫，又讓唾沫流到鬍鬚上。
14Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you see the man is mad. Why then have you brought him to me?
14亞吉就對他的臣僕說：“你們看，這個人瘋了，你們為甚麼把他帶到我這裡來呢？
15Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?”
15難道我缺少瘋子嗎？你們竟把這人帶來我面前發瘋。這人怎可以進我的家呢？”