1 Samuel 21:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The priest told him, ‘There is no ordinary bread on hand. However, there is consecrated bread,  but the young men may eat it  only if they have kept themselves from women.’

Cross References

Exodus 19:15

He said to the people, ‘Be prepared by the third day. Do not have sexual relations with women.’

Exodus 25:30

Put the Bread of the Presence  on the table before me at all times.

1 Corinthians 7:5

Do not deprive  one another #– #except when you agree for a time, to devote yourselves to  prayer. Then come together again; otherwise, Satan may tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Zechariah 7:3

by asking the priests who were at the house of the Lord of Armies as well as the prophets, ‘Should we mourn and fast in the fifth month as we have done these many years? ’

1 Samuel 21:6

So the priest gave him the consecrated bread,  for there was no bread there except the Bread of the Presence  that had been removed from the presence of the Lord. When the bread was removed, it had been replaced with warm bread.

Leviticus 15:18

If a man sleeps with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them are to bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.

1 Samuel 21:3

Now what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread or whatever can be found.’