1 Samuel 21:3-5

Easy-to-Read Version

³ Now, what food do you have with you? Give me five loaves of bread or whatever you have to eat.”

⁴ The priest said to David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread here, but I do have some of the holy bread. Your officers can eat it if they have not had sexual relations with any women.”^[a]

⁵ David answered the priest, “We have not been with any women. My men keep their bodies^[b] holy every time we go out to fight, even on ordinary missions.^[c] And this is especially true today.”