⁴ The priest told him, “There is no ordinary bread on hand. However, there is consecrated bread,^(A) but the young men may eat it^[a] only if they have kept themselves from women.”^(B)

⁵ David answered him, “I swear that women are being kept from us, as always when I go out to battle.^(C) The young men’s bodies^[b] are consecrated^(D) even on an ordinary mission, so of course their bodies are consecrated today.” ⁶ So the priest gave him the consecrated bread,^(E) for there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence^(F) that had been removed from the presence of the Lord. When the bread was removed, it had been replaced with warm bread.