He said to the people, *Be ready by the third day. Don't have sexual relations with a woman.*
1 Samuel 21:4 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) The Kohen 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. 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?" 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? |
He said to the people, *Be ready by the third day. Don't have sexual relations with a woman.*
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.
and to speak to the Kohanim of the house of the LORD of Armies, and to the prophets, saying, *Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?*
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 Hasatan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Now therefore what is under your hand? give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever there is present.
So the Kohen gave him holy [bread]; for there was no bread there but the show bread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.