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1 Samuel 21:4

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And the priest answered David, and said, [There is] no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.

And the priest {H3548} answered {H6030} David {H1732}, and said {H559}, There is no common {H2455} bread {H3899} under mine hand {H3027}, but there is {H3426} hallowed {H6944} bread {H3899}; if the young men {H5288} have kept {H8104} themselves at least {H389} from women {H802}.

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.

“There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”

And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.

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Cross-References

  • Exodus 19:15 (6 votes)

    And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at [your] wives.

  • Matthew 12:3 (6 votes)

    But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;

  • Matthew 12:4 (6 votes)

    How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?

  • Exodus 25:30 (5 votes)

    And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.

  • Leviticus 24:5 (3 votes)

    And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.

  • Leviticus 24:9 (3 votes)

    And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it [is] most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.

  • 1 Corinthians 7:5 (3 votes)

    Defraud ye not one the other, except [it be] with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.