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Tavi tswv Xa‑u
1Tes Tavi txawm moog txug tug pov thawj Ahimelej huv lub moos Nau. Mas Ahimelej tawm tuaj tog Tavi ua tshee quas nyo has tas, “Ua caag koj yuav tuab leeg tuaj xwb, tsw muaj leejtwg nrug koj tuaj?”
2Tavi has rua tug pov thawj Ahimelej tas, “Vaajntxwv khaiv kuv tuaj ua ib yaam num. Nwg has rua kuv tas, ‘Tsw xob qha zaaj kws kuv khaiv koj moog ua hov hab tej kws kuv muab cob rua koj lawd rua leejtwg paub le.’ Kuv tub teem cov tub hluas ntswb kuv dua rua ib qho chaw lawm.
3Nwgnuav koj muaj daabtsw ntawm teg? Thov muab tswb lub ncuav lossws ib yaam daabtsw kws koj muaj ntawm nuav rua kuv noj.”
4Tug pov thawj teb Tavi tas, “Kuv tsw muaj cov ncuav kws naj nub noj, tsuas yog cov ncuav kws dawb huv xwb. Yuav yog koj cov hluas tsw nrug quaspuj pw txhad noj tau.”
5Tavi teb tug pov thawj tas, “Qhov tseeb txhua zag kws kuv tawm moog ua num tej quaspuj yeej nyob deb ntawm peb. Txawm yog peb tawm moog ua tej num tsw tseem ceeb los tej tub hluas lub cev yeej dawb huv lawm. Mas nub nua puab lub cev yimfuab dawb huv.”
6Yog le hov tug pov thawj txhad muab cov ncuav dawb huv rua Tavi, vem yog hov ntawd tsw muaj lwm yaam ncuav, tsuas yog cov ncuav kws xyeem txawb rua ntawm Yawmsaub lub xubndag xwb, yog cov kws nyav khaws ntawm Yawmsaub xubndag lug es yuav muab cov tshab txawb rua tuab nub ntawd.
7Nub ntawd muaj ib tug yawm yog Xa‑u le ib tug qhev nyob hov ntawd, nwg tuaj ua nug rua Yawmsaub. Nwg npe hu ua Ntau‑e, yog tuabneeg Entoo, yog tug thawj kws yug Xa‑u paab yaaj.
8Hab Tavi has rua Ahimelej tas, “Koj muaj ib raab ntaaj lossws muv ntawm koj txhais teg los tsw muaj? Tsua qhov kuv tsw coj kuv raab ntaaj lossws tej cuab yeej tuaj hlo le vem vaajntxwv tej num yog num ceev.”
9Tug pov thawj has tas, “Kaulia kws yog tuabneeg Filixatee kws koj tua huv lub haav Ela hov raab ntaaj nyob ntawm nuav, tseed qhwv ntaub quas nreeg nyob ntawm lub efauj⚓ saab nrau. Yog koj cheem tsum raab ntaaj ntawd kuj coj moog, tsuas yog muaj tuab raab ntaaj ntawd xwb.” Mas Tavi has tas, “Tsw muaj ib raab ntaaj zoo le raab nuav lawm. Thov muab rua kuv lauj.”
10Tes nub ntawd Tavi txawm sawv kev tswv Xa‑u moog cuag vaajntxwv Akhij huv lub moos Ka.
11Mas Akhij cov tub teg tub taw has tas, “Tug yawm nuav tsw yog Tavi kws ua vaajntxwv kaav lub tebchaws hov lov? Puab tsw tau moog tog hu nkauj seev cev has tas, ‘Xa‑u tua tau quas txheeb leej, Tavi tua tau quas vaam leej,’ lov?”
12Tavi kuj khaws tej lug nuav rua huv nwg lub sab hab ntshai vaajntxwv Akhij huv lub moos Ka kawg le.
13Nwg txhad txhob txwm ua ib tug nam tsw thooj le qub rua puab pum, nwg ua txuj ua ib tug tuabneeg vwm. Nwg laam sau kis kaaj kis kag rua ntawm tej rooj loog, hab ua qub ncaug nrug quas zwg ntawm tej fwj txwv.
14Tes Akhij txhad has rua nwg cov tub teg tub taw tas, “Saib maj, mej tub pum tas tug yawm nuav vwm, mej tseed coj nwg tuaj cuag kuv ua daabtsw?
15Kuv tsw muaj tuabneeg vwm lov es mej tseed yuav coj tug yawm nuav tuaj vwm rua ntawm kuv xubndag? Tswm nyog tug yawm nuav tuaj rua huv kuv lub vaaj lub tsev lov?”
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David at Nob
1David 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?”
2David 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.
3Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you can find.”
4But 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.”
5David 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!”
6So 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.
7Now one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the Lord; he was Doeg the Edomite, Saul’s chief shepherd.
8David 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.”
9The 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.”
David at Gath
10That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath.
11But 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’?”
12David took these words to heart and was very much afraid of Achish king of Gath.
13So 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.
14Achish said to his servants, “Look at the man! He is insane! Why bring him to me?
15Am 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?”