1 Samuel 21:1-4 Parallel Bible Translations

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1	Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no man with you?”	Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech came to meet David, trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one with you?”	David 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?”
2	David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has commanded me to do something, and has said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you. I have sent the young men to a certain place.’	And David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has charged me with a matter and said to me, ‘Let no one know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.’ I have made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place.	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 therefore what is under your hand? Please give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever is available.”	Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here.”	Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you can find.”
4	The priest answered David, and said, “I have no common bread, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”	And the priest answered David, “I have no common bread on hand, but there is holy bread—if the young men have kept themselves from women.”	But 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.”
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