12. Now Dawiḏ was the son of that Ephrathite of Bĕyth Leḥem in Yehuḏah, whose name was Yishai, and he had eight sons, and in the days of Sha’ul the man was old among men.
13. And the three oldest sons of Yishai went, they had gone to follow Sha’ul to the battle, and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliyaḇ the first-born, and his second Aḇinaḏaḇ, and the third Shammah.
14. And Dawiḏ was the youngest. And the three oldest followed Sha’ul,
15. but Dawiḏ went and returned from Sha’ul to feed his father’s sheep at Bĕyth Leḥem.