And David left his things with the keeper of the baggage and ran to the rank and came and greeted his brothers — David's gesture of *tzelem* (greeting, asking about welfare) is familial intimacy, the normal courtesy between brothers, yet it also establishes his emotional baseline: amid the chaos and fear, David remains capable of genuine human connection. The verb *va'yaratz* (ran) suggests not fear but eagerness, not flight but forward motion toward the source of the conflict. He leaves his provisions—the domestic cargo—behind with the *shomir ha'kliyim* (keeper of the baggage), shifting his identity from provisioner to witness.

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