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.”

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?”

1 Samuel 21:4-5, NRSV Catholic Edition. Copyright © 1989, 1993 by the National Council of the Churches of Christ.
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