2 David answered Ahimelech the priest, "The king charged me with a certain matter and said to me, 'No one is to know anything about your mission and your instructions.' As for my men, I have told them to meet me at a certain place. |
3 Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you can find." |
4 But the priest answered David, "I don't have any ordinary bread on hand; however, there is some consecrated bread here-provided the men have kept themselves from women." |
5 David replied, "Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual whenever1 21:5 Or from us in the past few days since I set out. The men's things2 21:5 Or bodies are holy even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!" |
6 So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence that had been removed from before the LORD and replaced by hot bread on the day it was taken away. |
