David receiveth holy bread of Achimelech, the priest: and feigneth himself mad before Achis, king of Geth.

 1 And David came to Nobe to Achimelech the priest: and Achimelech was astonished at David's coming. And he said to him: Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?
Venit autem David in Nobe ad Achimelech sacerdotem : et obstupuit Achimelech, eo quod venisset David. Et dixit ei : Quare tu solus, et nullus est tecum?

 2 And David said to Achimelech the priest: The king hath commanded me a business, and said: Let no man know the thing for which thou art sent by me, and what manner of commands I have given thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.
Et ait David ad Achimelech sacerdotem : Rex praecepit mihi sermonem, et dixit : Nemo sciat rem, propter quam missus es a me, et cujusmodi praecepta tibi dederim : nam et pueris condixi in illum et illum locum.

 3 Now therefore if thou have any thing at hand, though it were but five loaves, give me, or whatsoever thou canst find.
Nunc ergo si quid habes ad manum, vel quinque panes, da mihi aut quidquid inveneris.

 4 And the priest answered David, saying: I have no common bread at hand, but only holy bread, if the young men be clean, especially from women?
Et respondens sacerdos ad David, ait illi : Non habeo laicos panes ad manum, sed tantum panem sanctum : si mundi sunt pueri, maxime a mulieribus?

 5 And David answered the priest, and said to him: Truly, as to what concerneth women, we have refrained ourselves from yesterday and the day before, when we came out, and the vessels of the young men were holy. Now this way is defiled, but it shall also be sanctified this day in the vessels.
Et respondit David sacerdoti, et dixit ei : Equidem, si de mulieribus agitur : continuimus nos ab heri et nudiustertius, quando egrediebamur, et fuerunt vasa puerorum sancta. Porro via haec polluta est, sed et ipsa hodie sanctificabitur in vasis.

 6 The priest therefore gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there, but only the loaves of proposition, which had been taken away from before the face of the Lord, that hot loaves might be set up.
Dedit ergo ei sacerdos sanctificatum panem : neque enim erat ibi panis, nisi tantum panes propositionis, qui sublati fuerant a facie Domini, ut ponerentur panes calidi.

 7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, within the tabernacle of the Lord: and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of Saul's herdsmen.
Erat autem ibi vir quidam de servis Saul, in die illa, intus in tabernaculo Domini : et nomen ejus Doeg Idumaeus, potentissimus pastorum Saul.

 8 And David said to Achimelech: Hast thou here at hand a spear, or a sword? for I brought not my own sword, nor my own weapons with me, for the king's business required haste.
Dixit autem David ad Achimelech : Si habes hic ad manum hastam, aut gladium? quia gladium meum, et arma mea non tuli mecum : sermo enim regis urgebat.

 9 And the priest said: Lo, here is the sword of Goliath the Philistine whom thou slewest in the valley of Terebinth, wrapped up in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take this, take it, for here is no other but this. And David said: There is none like that, give it me.
Et dixit sacerdos : Ecce hic gladius Goliath Philisthaei, quem percussisti in Valle terebinthi, est involutus pallio post ephod : si istum vis tollere, tolle : neque enim hic est alius absque eo. Et ait David : Non est huic alter similis, da mihi eum.

 10 And David arose and fled that day from the face of Saul: and came to Achis the king of Geth:
Surrexit itaque David, et fugit in die illa a facie Saul : et venit ad Achis regem Geth :

 11 And the servants of Achis, when they saw David, said to him: Is not this David the king of the land? Did they not sing to him in their dances, saying: Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
dixeruntque servi Achis ad eum cum vidissent David : Numquid non iste est David rex terrae? nonne huic cantabant per choros, dicentes : Percussit Saul mille, et David decem millia?

 12 But David laid up these words in his heart, and was exceedingly afraid at the face of Achis the king of Geth.
Posuit autem David sermones istos in corde suo, et extimuit valde a facie Achis regis Geth.

 13 And he changed his countenance before them, and slipt down between their hands: and he stumbled against the doors of the gate, and his spittle ran down upon his beard.
Et immutavit os suum coram eis, et collabebatur inter manus eorum : et impingebat in ostia portae, defluebantque salivae ejus in barbam.

 14 And Achis said to his servants: You saw the man was mad: why have you brought him to me?
Et ait Achis ad servos suos : Vidistis hominem insanum : quare adduxistis eum ad me?

 15 Have we need of madmen, that you have brought in this fellow, to play the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
An desunt nobis furiosi, quod introduxistis istum, ut fureret me praesente? hiccine ingredietur domum meam?