Jubilee Bible 2000 JUB
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1 Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech, the priest, and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David and said unto him, Why <em>art</em> thou alone, and no one with thee?
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David went to Nob, to Ahimelek the priest. Ahimelek trembled when he met him, and asked, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”
2 And David said unto Ahimelech, the priest, The king has commanded me a business and has said unto me, Let no one know anything of this business about which I send thee and what I have commanded thee, and I have appointed <em>my</em> servants to a certain place.
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David answered Ahimelek the priest, “The king sent me on a mission and said to me, ‘No one is to know anything about the mission I am sending you on.’ As for my men, I have told them to meet me at a certain place.
3 Now, therefore, what is under thy hand? Give <em>me</em> five <em>loaves of</em> bread in my hand or what there is present.
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Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you can find.”
4 And the priest answered David and said, <em>There is</em> no common bread under my hand; there is only sacred bread, which I will give thee if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.
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But the priest answered David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread on hand; however, there is some consecrated bread here—provided the men have kept themselves from women.”
5 And David answered the priest and said unto him, Of a truth women <em>have been</em> kept from us since yesterday and the day before yesterday since I came out, and the vessels of the young men were holy although the way is profane; how much more that today it shall be sanctified with the vessels.
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David replied, “Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual whenever I set out. The men’s bodies are holy even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!”
6 So the priest gave him the sacred bread, for there was no bread there but the showbread that had been taken from before the LORD to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
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So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence that had been removed from before the LORD and replaced by hot bread on the day it was taken away.
7 Now a certain man of the slaves of Saul <em>was</em> there that day, fulfilling <em>a vow</em> before the LORD, and his name <em>was</em> Doeg, an Edomite, the principal of the pastors of Saul.
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Now one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the LORD; he was Doeg the Edomite, Saul’s chief shepherd.
8 And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thy hand a spear or a sword? For I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me because the king’s business required haste.
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David asked Ahimelek, “Don’t you have a spear or a sword here? I haven’t brought my sword or any other weapon, because the king’s mission was urgent.”
9 And the priest replied, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou didst overcome in the valley of Elah, behold, it <em>is here</em> wrapped in a veil behind the ephod; if thou wilt take that, take <em>it</em>, for <em>there is</em> none other except that here. And David said, <em>There is</em> none like that; give it to me.
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The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want it, take it; there is no sword here but that one.” David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”
10 And David arose and fled that day from the presence of Saul and went to Achish, the king of Gath.
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That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath.
11 And the slaves of Achish said unto him, <em>Is</em> this not David, the king of the land? Did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul has slain his thousands and David his ten thousands?
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But the servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David, the king of the land? Isn’t he the one they sing about in their dances: “ ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?”
12 And David laid up these words in his heart and was sore afraid of Achish, the king of Gath.
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David took these words to heart and was very much afraid of Achish king of Gath.
13 And he changed his behaviour before them and feigned himself a fool in their hands and scrabbled on the doors of the gate and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
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So he pretended to be insane in their presence; and while he was in their hands he acted like a madman, making marks on the doors of the gate and letting saliva run down his beard.
14 Then Achish said unto his slaves, Behold, ye see the man is mad; why <em>then</em> have ye brought him to me?
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Achish said to his servants, “Look at the man! He is insane! Why bring him to me?
15 Have I need of mad men that ye have brought this <em>fellow</em> to play the mad man in my presence? Shall this <em>fellow</em> come into my house?
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Am I so short of madmen that you have to bring this fellow here to carry on like this in front of me? Must this man come into my house?”
The Jubilee Bible (from the Scriptures of the Reformation), edited by Russell M. Stendal, Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2010
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