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10 And David said, “As Yahweh lives,[a] certainly[b] Yahweh will strike him, or his day will come and he will die, or he will go down in the battle and perish.[c] 11 Yahweh forbid me[d] from stretching out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed one! So then, please take the spear that is near his head and the jar of water, and let us go.” 12 So David took the spear and the jar of water from near Saul’s head, and they went away. No one saw, no one knew, and no one awakened,[e] for all of them were sleeping because a deep sleep of Yahweh had fallen upon them.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 26:10 Literally “The life of Yahweh”
  2. 1 Samuel 26:10 Literally “if surely”
  3. 1 Samuel 26:10 Literally “will be carried away”
  4. 1 Samuel 26:11 Literally “Far be it from me from Yahweh”
  5. 1 Samuel 26:12 Literally “there was not anyone seeing and there was not anyone knowing and there was not anyone awakening”