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Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah and came and said before Jonathan, "What have I done? What [is] my guilt and what [is] my sin before your father that [he is] {trying to kill me}?[note: Literally "seeking my life"]

And he said to him, "Far from it! You will not die! Look, my father does not do[note: The Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib) reads "he does to/for him"; the translation follows the reading tradition (Qere) which has "does not do"] {anything large or small unless he reveals it to me}.[note: Literally "a large thing or a small thing and he [does] not reveal [to] my ear"] Why should my father hide this thing or anything from me?"

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