1 Samuel 21:4-5

David and the Holy Bread

4 And the priest answered David, "I have no common bread on hand, but there is y holy bread - z if the young men have kept themselves from women." 5 And David answered the priest, "Truly 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 an ordinary journey. How much more today will their vessels be holy?"

  1. Cross References
    Exodus 25:30
    And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me regularly.
    Leviticus 24:5
    You shall take fine flour and bake twelve loaves from it; two tenths of an ephah shall be in each loaf.
    Matthew 12:3 - 4
    He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him:
    Mark 2:25 - 26
    And he said to them, "Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him:
    Luke 6:3 - 4
    And Jesus answered them, "Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him:
  2. Cross References
    Exodus 19:15
    And he said to the people, "Be ready for the third day; do not go near a woman.
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