1 Samuel 21:4

New American Standard Bible 2020

The priest answered David and said, “There is no ordinary bread on hand, but there is consecrated bread, if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”

Cross References

Exodus 19:15

He also 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 continually.

Leviticus 15:18

If a man sleeps with a woman so that there is a seminal emission, they shall both bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

Zechariah 7:3

speaking to the priests who belong to the house of the Lord of armies, and to the prophets, saying, “Shall I weep in the fifth month and fast, as I have done these many years?”

1 Corinthians 7:5

Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

1 Samuel 21:3

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

1 Samuel 21:6

So the priest gave him consecrated bread; for there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence which was removed from its place before the Lord, in order to put hot bread in its place on the day it was taken away.