1 Samuel 21:4 - Tree of Life Version

⁴ So now, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread or whatever can be found.”

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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?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ 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?

1 Samuel 21:4 Cross References

Exodus 19:15

He said to the people, “Be ready for the third day. Do not draw near your wives.”

Exodus 25:30

Always set the bread of the Presence on the table before Me.

Leviticus 15:18

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

Zechariah 7:3

and to speak to the kohanim of the House of Adonai-Tzva’ot and to the prophets saying, “Should I mourn and consecrate myself in the fifth month as I have done for so many years?”

1 Corinthians 7:5

Do not deprive one another—except by mutual consent for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

1 Samuel 21:3

David said to Ahimelech the kohen, “The king has commissioned me with a matter, and told me: ‘Let no one know anything about the mission on which I am sending you, or with what I have commissioned you.’ So, I have directed the young men to such and such a place.

1 Samuel 21:6

“Of course women have been kept from us, as on previous campaigns,” David answered the kohen. “So the young men’s vessels were holy, though it was an ordinary mission—how much more so will their vessels be holy today!”