⁴ Jonathan told David, “Whatever you say, I’ll do.”

⁵ David told Jonathan, “Look, the New Moon is tomorrow, and I’m expected to sit down with the king to eat. Let me go so I can hide in the field until the evening of the day after tomorrow.^{[a] 6} If your father actually notices that I’m not there,^[b] then you are to say, ‘David urgently requested that I allow him to run to his hometown of Bethlehem because the yearly sacrifice for the entire family was taking place there.’