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1 Samuel 21:3-5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Samuel 21:3-5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 Now then, what have you at hand? Give me five loaves of bread or whatever is here.” 4 The priest answered David, “I have no ordinary bread at hand, only holy bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”(A) 5 David answered the priest, “Indeed, women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition; the vessels of the young men are holy even when it is a common journey; how much more today will their vessels be holy?”(B)
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