1 Samuel 21:4

World Messianic Bible British Edition

The priest answered David, and said, “I have no common bread, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”

Cross References

Exodus 19:15

He said to the people, “Be ready by the third day. Don’t have sexual relations with a woman.”

Exodus 25:30

You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.

Leviticus 15:18

If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Zechariah 7:3

and to speak to the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”

1 Corinthians 7:5

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

1 Samuel 21:3

Now therefore what is under your hand? Please give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever is available.”

1 Samuel 21:6

So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the show bread that was taken from before the LORD, to be replaced with hot bread in the day when it was taken away.