These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
1 Samuel 21
Tanakh 15 verses
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Then came to Nob to Ahimelech the ; and Ahimelech came to meet trembling, and said unto him: ‘Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?’
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And said unto Ahimelech the : ‘The hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me: Let no man any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee; and the young men have I appointed to such and such a place.
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Now therefore what is under thy hand? five loaves of bread? give them in my hand, or whatsoever there is present.’
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And the answered , and said: ‘There is no common bread under my hand, but there is bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.’
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And answered the , and said unto him: ‘Of a women have been kept from us about these three days; when I came out, the vessels of the young men were , though it was but a common journey; how much more then to-day, when there shall be bread in their vessels?’
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So the gave him bread; for there was no bread there but the showbread, that was taken from before , to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.—
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- 7 Now a certain man of the servants of was there that day, detained before ; and his was Doeg the Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to .—
- 8 And said unto Ahimelech: ‘And is there peradventure here under thy hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.’
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And the said: ‘The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the vale 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 that here.’ And said: ‘There is none like that; give it me.’
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And arose, and fled that day for of , and went to Achish the of Gath.
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And the servants of Achish said unto him: ‘Is not this the of the land? Did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying: hath slain his thousands, And his ten thousands?’
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And laid up these words in his , and was sore afraid of Achish the of Gath.
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And he changed his demeanour 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.
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Then said Achish unto his servants: ‘Lo, when ye see a man that is mad, wherefore do ye bring him to me?
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- 15 Do I lack madmen, that ye have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?’