1 Samuel 20:26 - Modern English Version

²⁶ Nevertheless Saul did not say anything that day. For he thought, “Something has happened. He is not clean; surely he is not clean.”

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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.

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.

1 Samuel 20:26 Tagairtí Cros

Leviticus 11:24

And by these you shall be unclean. Whoever touches the carcass of these shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11:27

Whatever animal that walks on its paws, among all manner of animals that go on all fours, those are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11:31

These are unclean to you among all that crawl. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11:40

And the person who eats of the carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. The person who carries the carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15:5

Whoever touches the bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Numbers 19:16

Whoever in the field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave will be unclean seven days.

1 Samuel 16:5

And he said, “I have come in peace to sacrifice to the Lord. Consecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” And he consecrated Jesse and his sons and called them to the sacrifice.

1 Samuel 20:27

It happened on the following day, which was the second day of the month, that David’s place remained empty. So Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why has the son of Jesse not come to eat food either yesterday or today?”