1 Samuel 21:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The priest answered David, “I have no ordinary bread at hand, only holy bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”

Cross References

Exodus 19:15

And he said to the people, “Prepare 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 lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.

Zechariah 7:3

and to ask the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and the prophets, “Should I mourn and practice abstinence in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”

1 Corinthians 7:5

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

1 Samuel 21:3

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

1 Samuel 21:6

So the priest gave him the holy bread, for there was no bread there except 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.