1 Samuel 20:26 - Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ And Saul did not say anything on that day. For he was thinking that perhaps something happened to him, so that he was not clean, or not purified.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ Yet Saul said nothing that day, for he thought, Something has befallen him and he is not clean–surely he is not clean.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ Nevertheless Saul spake not anything that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean.

Common English Bible

²⁶ Saul didn’t say anything that day because he thought, Perhaps David became unclean somehow. That must be it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ And Saul said nothing that day; for he thought it might have happened to him, that he was not clean, nor purified.

English Standard Version 2016

²⁶ Yet Saul did not say anything that day, for he thought, “Something has happened to him. He is not clean; surely he is not clean.”

1 Samuel 20:26 Tagairtí Cros

Leviticus 11:24

And whoever will have touched their carcasses shall be defiled, and he shall be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 11:27

Whatever walks upon its hands, out of all the animals that advance on all fours, shall be unclean. Whoever will have touched their carcasses shall be polluted until evening.

Leviticus 11:31

All these are unclean. Whoever will have touched their carcasses shall be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 11:40

And whoever will have eaten or carried anything of these shall wash his clothes, and he shall be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 15:5

If any man has touched his couch, he shall wash his clothes, and having washed with water, he shall be unclean until evening.

Numbers 19:16

If anyone in the field will have touched the corpse of a man, who was killed or who died on his own, or his bone, or his grave, he shall be unclean for seven days.

1 Samuel 16:5

And he said: "It is peaceful. I have arrived in order to immolate to the Lord. Be sanctified, and come with me to the sacrifice." Then he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and he called them to the sacrifice.

1 Samuel 20:27

And when the second day after the new moon had begun to dawn, David's place again appeared empty. And Saul said to Jonathan, his son, "Why has the son of Jesse not arrived to eat, neither yesterday, nor today?"