1 Samuel 21:3-5

The Voice

³ Now what do you have here to eat? Let me have five loaves of bread or whatever you have.

Ahimelech: ⁴ I have no ordinary bread—only the holy bread. You may take it, if your men have not recently had sexual intercourse.

David: ⁵ Of course. They have stayed away from women since we have been on the road, three days now. If their bodies must be kept pure even when we go on a typical journey, how much more must they be kept pure when we are on a mission like this one?