1 Samuel 20:20-22

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁰ I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as though I shot at a mark. ²¹ Then I will send the boy, saying, “Go, find the arrows.” If I say to the boy, “Look, the arrows are on this side of you, collect them”, then you are to come, for, as the Lord lives, it is safe for you and there is no danger. ²² But if I say to the young man, “Look, the arrows are beyond you”, then go; for the Lord has sent you away.