1 Samuel 21:4

New English Translation

The priest replied to David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread at my disposal. Only holy bread is available, and then only if your soldiers have abstained from sexual relations with women.”

Cross References

Exodus 19:15

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

Exodus 25:30

You are to set the Bread of the Presence on the table before me continually.

Leviticus 15:18

When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman and there is a seminal emission, they must bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

Zechariah 7:3

by asking both the priests of the temple of the Lord who rules over all and the prophets, “Should we weep in the fifth month, fasting as we have done over the years?”

1 Corinthians 7:5

Do not deprive each other, except by mutual agreement for a specified time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then resume your relationship, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

1 Samuel 21:3

Now what do you have at your disposal? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found.”

1 Samuel 21:6

So the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no bread there other than the bread of the Presence. It had been removed from before the Lord in order to replace it with hot bread on the day it had been taken away.