1 Samuel 20:26 - Tree of Life Version

²⁶ Nevertheless, Saul said nothing that day, for he thought, “It must be an accident; he must be ceremonially unclean—yes, that’s it, he’s unclean.”

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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

“Moreover, by these also you will become unclean: whoever touches their carcasses should be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11:27

So whatever moves on its paws, among all animals that go on all fours, is unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11:31

Among all that creep these are the ones that are unclean to you. Whoever touches them when they are dead, will be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11:40

He who eats of its carcass is to wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. Also, the one who carries its carcass is to wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15:5

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

Numbers 19:16

Anyone out in the open field who touches a dead body, whether killed by a sword or was killed by a natural cause, or touches a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

1 Samuel 16:5

“In shalom,” he said. “I have come to sacrifice to Adonai. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” He also consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

1 Samuel 20:27

Yet it came to pass on the day following the New Moon, the second day, that David’s place was still empty. So Saul asked his son Jonathan, “Why didn’t Jesse’s son come to the meal yesterday or today?”