1 Samuel 21:4

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

Exodus 19:15

And he said to the people, “Be ready for 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 regularly.

1 Corinthians 7:5

Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Zechariah 7:3

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

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.

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.

1 Samuel 21:3

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