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And I will shoot three arrows near it, and will shoot as if I were exercising myself at a mark.
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And I will send a boy, saying to him: Go and fetch me the arrows.
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If I shall say to the boy: Behold the arrows are on this side of thee, take them up: come thou to me, because there is peace to thee, and there is no evil, as the Lord liveth. But if I shall speak thus to the boy: Behold the arrows are beyond thee: go in peace, for the Lord hath sent thee away.
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And concerning the word which I and thou have spoken, the Lord be between thee and me forever.
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So David was hid in the field, and the new moon came, and the king sat down to eat bread.
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And when the king sat down upon his chair, (according to custom) which was beside the wall, Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul’s side, and David’s place appeared empty.
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And Saul said nothing that day, for he thought it might have happened to him, that he was not clean, nor purified.
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And when the second day after the new moon was come, David’s place appeared empty again. And Saul said to Jonathan, his son: Why cometh not the son of Isai to meat neither yesterday, nor to day?
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And Jonathan answered Saul: He asked leave of me earnestly to go to Bethlehem.
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And he said: Let me go, for there is a solemn sacrifice in the city, one of my brethren hath sent for me: and now if I have found favour in thy eyes, I will go quickly, and see my brethren. For this cause he came not to the king’s table.
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Then Saul being angry against Jonathan, said to him: Thou son of a woman that is the ravisher of a man, do I not know that thou lovest the son of Isai to thy own confusion, and to the confusion of thy shameless mother?