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Now, what do you have available?[a] Give me five loaves of bread or whatever you have.”[b]

The priest answered David: “There is no ordinary bread available;[c] only consecrated bread, provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”

David answered the priest, saying to him, “Indeed, women were kept from us as is usual[d] whenever I go out on a mission,[e] and the equipment[f] of the young men is consecrated even when it’s an ordinary journey, so how much more is their equipment[g] consecrated today?”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 21:3 Lit. under your control
  2. 1 Samuel 21:3 Lit. what is found
  3. 1 Samuel 21:4 Lit. under my control
  4. 1 Samuel 21:5 Lit. as previously
  5. 1 Samuel 21:5 The Heb. lacks on a mission
  6. 1 Samuel 21:5 Or vessels
  7. 1 Samuel 21:5 Or are their vessels