1 Samuel 21:4 - Easy To Read Version

⁴ Now, what food do you have with you? Give me five loaves of bread or whatever you have to eat.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ 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

⁴ 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)

⁴ 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

⁴ “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

⁴ 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

⁴ 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?

1 Samuel 21:4 Tagairtí Cros

Exodus 19:15

Then Moses said to the people, “Be ready for the meeting with God in three days. Until that time, the men must not touch the women.”

Exodus 25:30

Put the special bread [183] before me on the table. It must always be there in front of me.

Leviticus 15:18

If a man sleeps with a woman and has a flow of semen, then both the man and the woman must bathe in water. They will be unclean until evening.

Zechariah 7:3

They went to the prophets and to the priests at the temple of the Lord All-Powerful. Those men asked them this question: “For many years we have shown our sadness for the destruction of the temple. In the fifth month of each year we have had a special time of crying and fasting. Should we continue to do this?”

1 Corinthians 7:5

Don’t refuse to give your bodies to each other. But you might both agree to stay away \{from sex\} for a time. You might do this so that you can give your time to prayer. Then come together again. This is so that Satan (the Devil) cannot tempt you in your weakness.

1 Samuel 21:3

David answered Ahimelech, “The king gave me a special order. He told me, ‘Don’t let anyone know about this mission. No person must know what I told you to do.’ I told my men where to meet me.

1 Samuel 21:6

David answered the priest, “We have not been with any women. My men keep their bodies holy every time we go out to fight, even on ordinary missions. [182] And this is especially true today, when our work is so special.”