1 SAMUEL 24:7 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.”
Then David arose and quietly cut off the skirt of Saul's robe — David's *va'yaqum David va'yikrat et k'naf me'il Shaul bachtarut*, arose and cut the skirt of Saul's robe, performs an act of symbolic significance. The *k'naf me'il*, skirt of the robe, is the hem, the edge, and its cutting is an act of desecration, a violation of the royal garment. Yet David's action stops short of killing; he takes a piece of fabric, leaving Saul alive.
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