1 Samuel 21:3-5

International Children’s Bible

³ Now, what food do you have with you? Give me five loaves of bread or anything you find.”

⁴ The priest said to David, “I don’t have any plain bread here. But I do have some holy bread^[a] here. You may eat it if your men have kept themselves from women.”

⁵ David answered, “Women have been kept from us. My men always keep their bodies holy, even when we do ordinary work. And this is especially true when the work is holy.”