ECB(i)
28 Then a man of the people answers, and says, In oathing, your father oathed the people with an oath, saying, Cursed is the man who eats food this day: and the people flutter.
29 Then Yah Nathan says, My father troubles the land: see, I beseech you, how my eyes enlighten, because I tasted a little of this honey.
30 and if in eating, the people had eaten today of the spoil of their enemies which they found: because now, is not the stroke greatened among the Peleshethiy?
31 And that day they smite the Peleshethiy from Michmash to Ayalon: and the people flutter mightily:
32 and the people work on the spoil and take flock and oxen and sons of oxen and slaughter them on the earth: and the people eat them with the blood.
33 And they tell Shaul, saying, Behold, the people sin against Yah Veh in that they eat with the blood. And he says, You have concealed: roll a great stone to me this day.
34 And Shaul says, Scatter yourselves among the people and say to them, Bring near me the ox of every man and the lamb of every man and slaughter here and eat: and sin not against Yah Veh in eating with the blood. And that night all the people bring near the ox of every man in his hand and slaughters there:
35 and Shaul builds a sacrifice altar to Yah Veh: and he begins to build a sacrifice altar to Yah Veh.
36 And Shaul says, We descend after the Peleshethiy by night and plunder them until the morning light that not a man of them survives. And they say, Work whatever seems good in your eyes. And the priest says, Approach hither to Elohim.
37 And Shaul asks counsel of Elohim, Descend I after the Peleshethiy? Give you them into the hand of Yisra El? - and he answers him not that day.
38 And Shaul says, Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people: and know and see wherein this sin becomes this day.
39 For, Yah Veh lives, who saves Yisra El, though it be in Yah Nathan my son, in dying, he dies. - and not a man among all the people answers him.
40 Then he says to all Yisra El, You - you are on one side and I and Yah Nathan my son are on one side. And the people say to Shaul, Work what seems good in your eyes.
41 And Shaul says to Yah Veh Elohim of Yisra El, Show integrity. And they capture Shaul and Yah Nathan: and the people go.
42 And Shaul says, Fell between me and Yah Nathan my son. And they capture Yah Nathan.