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1 Samuel 21:1-5
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1 Samuel 21:1-5
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21 Là-dessus, David se mit en route et s’en alla, tandis que Jonathan retourna en ville.
David chez le prêtre Ahimélek
2 David se rendit à Nob[a], auprès du prêtre Ahimélek. Celui-ci accourut tout tremblant au-devant de lui et lui demanda : Comment se fait-il que tu sois seul ? Pourquoi n’y a-t-il personne avec toi ?
3 – Le roi m’a chargé d’une mission, lui répondit David, et il m’a dit : « Que personne ne sache rien de l’affaire pour laquelle je t’envoie et de l’ordre que je t’ai donné. » C’est pourquoi j’ai donné rendez-vous à mes hommes à un certain endroit. 4 Maintenant, qu’as-tu à manger sous la main ? Peux-tu me donner cinq pains ou quelque chose d’autre ?
5 Le prêtre lui répondit : Je n’ai pas de pain ordinaire sous la main, mais seulement des pains consacrés[b]. Tu peux les prendre pour tes hommes s’ils n’ont pas eu de relations sexuelles récemment.
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1 Samuel 21:1-5
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1 Samuel 21:1-5
King James Version
21 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.
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1 Samuel 21:1-5
New International Version
1 Samuel 21:1-5
New International Version
David at Nob
21 [a]David went to Nob,(A) to Ahimelek the priest. Ahimelek trembled(B) when he met him, and asked, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”
2 David 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. 3 Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you can find.”
4 But the priest answered David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread(C) on hand; however, there is some consecrated(D) bread here—provided the men have kept(E) themselves from women.”
5 David replied, “Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual(F) whenever[b] I set out. The men’s bodies are holy(G) even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!”
Footnotes
- 1 Samuel 21:1 In Hebrew texts 21:1-15 is numbered 21:2-16.
- 1 Samuel 21:5 Or from us in the past few days since
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