Liber Primus Samuelis

I Samuelis, chapter 21, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 21 Vulgate

   1 Et surrexit David et abiit; sed et Ionathan ingressus est civitatem.
   2 Venit autem David in Nob ad Achimelech sacerdotem, et obstupuit Achimelech eo quod venisset David, et dixit ei: "Quare tu solus et nullus est tecum?".
   3 Et ait David ad Achimelech sacerdotem: "Rex praecepit mihi negotium et dixit: "Nemo sciat rem, propter quam a me missus es, et cuiusmodi tibi praecepta dederim"; pueris vero condixi in illum et illum locum.
   4 Nunc igitur, si habes ad manum quinque panes, da mihi, aut quidquid inveneris".
   5 Et respondens sacerdos David ait ei: "Non habeo panes laicos ad manum, sed tantum panem sanctum; si mundi sunt pueri maxime a mulieribus?".
   6 Et respondit David sacerdoti et dixit ei: "Equidem, si de mulieribus agitur, continuimus nos ab heri et nudiustertius. Quando egrediebar, fuerunt corpora puerorum sancta, quamvis iter esset profanum. Quanto magis hodie sunt sancti quoad corpora".
   7 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.
   8 Erat autem ibi vir de servis Saul in die illa retentus ante Dominum; et nomen eius Doeg Idumaeus, potentissimus pastorum Saul.
   9 Dixit autem David ad Achimelech: "Si habes hic ad manum hastam aut gladium? Quia gladium meum et arma mea non tuli mecum; negotium enim regis urgebat".
   10 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 est alius hic absque eo". Et ait David: "Non est huic alter similis; da mihi eum".
   11 Surrexit itaque David et fugit in die illa a facie Saul et venit ad Achis regem Geth.
   12 Dixeruntque ei servi Achis: "Numquid non iste est David rex terrae? Nonne huic cantabant per choros dicentes: "Percussit Saul milia sua, et David decem milia sua"?".
   13 Posuit autem David sermones istos in corde suo et extimuit valde a facie Achis regis Geth.
   14 Et immutavit os suum coram eis; et insaniebat inter manus eorum et impingebat in ostia portae, defluebantque salivae in barbam.
   15 Et ait Achis ad servos suos: "Vidistis hominem insanum. Quare adduxistis eum ad me?
   16 An desunt nobis furiosi, quod introduxistis istum, ut fureret, me praesente? Hicine ingredietur domum meam?".

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?
   2 And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.
   3 Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present.
   4 And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.
   5 And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.
   6 So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
   7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.
   8 ¶ And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.
   9 And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.
   10 ¶ And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
   11 And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
   12 And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
   13 And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
   14 Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?
   15 Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?