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1 Samuel 21:5

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David answered the priest, and said to him, “Truly, women have been kept from us as usual these three days. When I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was only a common journey. How much more then today shall their vessels be holy?”

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1 Samuel 21:5 in other translations

And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days; when I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was but a common journey; how much more then to-day shall their vessels be holy?

1 Samuel 21:5 · American Standard Version

1 Samuel 21:5 in context

  1. 3Now therefore what is under your hand? Please give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever is available.”
  2. 4The 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.”
  3. 5David answered the priest, and said to him, “Truly, women have been kept from us as usual these three days. When I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was only a common journey. How much more then today shall their vessels be holy?”
  4. 6So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the show bread that was taken from before Yahweh, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
  5. 7Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.