1 Samuele (1 صموئيل) 21

SMITH VAN DYKE	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 فجاء داود الى نوب الى اخيمالك الكاهن. فاضطرب اخيمالك عند لقاء داود وقال له لماذا انت وحدك وليس معك احد.	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?
2 فقال داود لاخيمالك الكاهن ان الملك امرني بشيء وقال لي لا يعلم احد شيئا من الأمر الذي ارسلتك فيه وأمرتك به. واما الغلمان فقد عينت لهم الموضع الفلاني والفلاني.	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.
3 والآن فماذا يوجد تحت يدك. اعط خمس خبزات في يدي او الموجود.	3 Now therefore if thou have any thing at hand, though it were but five loaves, give me, or whatsoever thou canst find.
4 فاجاب الكاهن داود وقال لا يوجد خبز محلّل تحت يدي ولكن يوجد خبز مقدس اذا كان الغلمان قد حفظوا انفسهم لا سيّما من النساء.	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?
5 فاجاب داود الكاهن وقال له ان النساء قد منعت عنا منذ امس وما قبله عند خروجي وامتعة الغلمان مقدسة وهو على نوع محلّل واليوم ايضا يتقدس بالآنية.	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.
6 فاعطاه الكاهن المقدس لانه لم يكن هناك خبز الا خبز الوجوه المرفوع من امام الرب لكي يوضع خبز سخن في يوم اخذه.	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.
7 وكان هناك رجل من عبيد شاول في ذلك اليوم محصورا امام الرب اسمه دواغ الادومي رئيس رعاة شاول.	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.
8 وقال داود لاخيمالك أفما يوجد هنا تحت يدك رمح او سيف لاني لم آخذ بيدي سيفي ولا سلاحي لان امر الملك كان معجلا.	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.
9 فقال الكاهن ان سيف جليات الفلسطيني الذي قتلته في وادي البطم ها هو ملفوف في ثوب خلف الافود فان شئت ان تأخذه فخذه لانه ليس آخر سواه هنا. فقال داود لا يوجد مثله اعطني اياه	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.
10 وقام داود وهرب في ذلك اليوم من امام شاول وجاء الى اخيش ملك جتّ.	10 And David arose and fled that day from the face of Saul: and came to Achis the king of Geth:
11 فقال عبيد اخيش له أليس هذا داود ملك الارض. أليس لهذا كنّ يغنين في الرقص قائلات ضرب شاول الوفه وداود ربواته.	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?
12 فوضع داود هذا الكلام في قلبه وخاف جدا من اخيش ملك جتّ.	12 But David laid up these words in his heart, and was exceedingly afraid at the face of Achis the king of Geth.
13 فغيّر عقله في اعينهم وتظاهر بالجنون بين ايديهم واخذ يخربش على مصاريع الباب ويسيل ريقه على لحيته.	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.
14 فقال اخيش لعبيده هوذا ترون الرجل مجنونا فلماذا تأتون به اليّ.	14 And Achis said to his servants: You saw the man was mad: why have you brought him to me?
15 ألعلي محتاج الى مجانين حتى أتيتم بهذا ليتجنّن عليّ. أهذا يدخل بيتي	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?