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He said to them, “Have you not read [in the Scriptures] what David did when he was hungry, he and those who accompanied him—(A) how he went into the house of God, and they ate the [a]consecrated bread, which was not lawful for him to eat nor for those with him, but for the priests only? Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break [the sanctity of] the Sabbath and yet are innocent?(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 12:4 The bread of the Presence, the twelve fresh loaves presented each Sabbath to the Lord in the Holy Place.

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