1 Samuel 21:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ Now therefore if thou have any thing at hand, though it were but five loaves, give me, or whatsoever thou canst find.

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?

⁵ And David answered the priest, and said to him: Truly, as to what concerneth women, we have refrained ourselves from yesterday and the day before, when we came out, and the vessels of the young men were holy. Now this way is defiled, but it shall also be sanctified this day in the vessels.