1 Samuel 21:4-6

Complete Jewish Bible

^4 (3) Now, what do you have on hand? If you can spare five loaves of bread, give them to me, or whatever there is.” ^5 (4) The cohen answered David, “I don’t have any regular bread; however, there is consecrated bread — but only if the guards have abstained from women. ^6 (5) David answered the cohen, “Of course women have been kept away from us, as on previous campaigns. Whenever I go out on campaign, the men’s gear is clean, even if it’s an ordinary trip. How much more, then, today, when they will be putting something consecrated in their packs!”