He said to them: Be ready against the third day, and come not near your wives.
1 Samuel 21:4 - Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the priest answered David, saying: I have no common bread at hand, but only holy bread, if the young men be clean, especially from women? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the priest answered David, There is no common bread on hand, but there is hallowed bread–if the young men have kept themselves at least from women. American Standard Version (1901) And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women. Common English Bible “I don’t have any regular bread on hand,” the priest answered David, “just holy bread—but only if your troops have abstained from sexual activity.” Catholic Public Domain Version And the priest, responding to David, said to him: "I have no common bread at hand, but only holy bread. Are the young men clean, especially from women?" 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.” |
He said to them: Be ready against the third day, and come not near your wives.
And thou shalt set upon the table loaves of proposition, in my sight always.
The woman, with whom he copulateth, shall be washed with water, and shall be unclean until the evening.
To speak to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts, and to the prophets, saying: Must I weep in the fifth month, or must I sanctify myself as I have now done for many years?
Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may give yourselves to prayer; and return together again, lest Satan tempt you for your incontinency.
Now therefore if thou have any thing at hand, though it were but five loaves, give me, or whatsoever thou canst find.
The priest therefore gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there, but only the loaves of proposition, which had been taken away from before the face of the Lord, that hot loaves might be set up.