1Sa 21:4-5 | ESV | STEP | And the priest answered David , I have no common bread on hand , but there is holy bread — if the young men have kept themselves from women .

a Ex. 25:30; Lev. 24:5; Matt. 12:3, 4; Mark 2:25, 26; Luke 6:3, 4

‏ 1 Samuel 21:4-5

4 And the priest answered David, “I have no common bread on hand, but there is ^aholy bread— ^bif 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?”