5. David said to Jonathan, Tomorrow is the New Moon [festival], and I should not fail to sit at the table with the king; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field till the third day at evening.
6. If your father misses me at all, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem, his city, for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.
7. If he says, All right, then it will be well with your servant; but if he is angry, then be sure that evil is determined by him.
8. Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought [me] into a covenant of the Lord with you. But if there is guilt in me, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?
9. And Jonathan said, Far be it from you! If I knew that evil was determined for you by my father, would I not tell you?
10. Then said David to Jonathan, Who will tell me if your father answers you roughly?
11. Jonathan said, Come, let us go into the field. So they went into the field.
12. Jonathan said to David, The Lord, the God of Israel, be witness. When I have sounded out my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if he is well inclined toward David, and I do not send and let you know it,
13. The Lord do so, and much more, to Jonathan. But if it please my father to do you harm, then I will disclose it to you and send you away, that you may go in safety. And may the Lord be with you as He has been with my father.
14. While I am still alive you shall not only show me the loving-kindness of the Lord, so that I die not,
15. But also you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever–no, not even when the Lord has cut off every enemy of David from the face of the earth.