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?”

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?

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.’

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.

³Now therefore what is under your hand? Give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever there is present.”

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

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.”

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

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?”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.”

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.

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

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

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?’”

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?

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

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

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.

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.

¹⁴Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you see the man is mad. Why then have you brought him to me?

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

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

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