1 Samuel 21:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴ And the priest answered David, “I have no common bread at hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ And the priest answered David, There is no common bread on hand, but there is hallowed bread–if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.

Common English Bible

⁴ “I don’t have any regular bread on hand,” the priest answered David, “just holy bread—but only if your troops have abstained from sexual activity.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And the priest, responding to David, said to him: "I have no common bread at hand, but only holy bread. Are the young men clean, especially from women?"

1 Samuel 21:4 Cross References

Exodus 19:15

And he said to the people, “Be ready by the third day; do not go near a woman.”

Exodus 25:30

And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me always.

Leviticus 15:18

If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Zechariah 7:3

and to ask the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and the prophets, “Should I mourn and fast in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”

1 Corinthians 7:5

Do not refuse one another except perhaps by agreement for a season, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, lest Satan tempt you through lack of self-control.

1 Samuel 21:3

Now then, what have you at hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here.”

1 Samuel 21:6

So the priest gave him the holy bread; for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence, which is removed from before the Lord, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.