And he said to the people, “Prepare for the third day; do not go near a woman.”
1 Samuel 21:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The priest answered David, “I have no ordinary bread at hand, only holy bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.” Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 “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 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?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the priest answered David, saying: I have no common bread at hand, but only holy bread, if the young men be clean, especially from women? |
And he said to the people, “Prepare for the third day; do not go near a woman.”
And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me continually.
If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.
and to ask the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and the prophets, “Should I mourn and practice abstinence in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”
Do not deprive one another except perhaps by agreement for a set time, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Now then, what have you at hand? Give me five loaves of bread or whatever is here.”
So the priest gave him the holy bread, for there was no bread there except 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.