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David answered the priest, “Be assured that [a]women have been kept from us in these three days since I set out, and the [b]bodies of the young men were consecrated (ceremonially clean), although it was an ordinary (unconsecrated) journey; so how much more will their vessels be holy today?” So the priest gave him the consecrated bread; for there was no bread there except the bread of the [c]Presence which was removed from before the Lord in order to put hot bread in its place when it was taken away.

Now one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the Lord; his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul’s shepherds.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 21:5 I.e. intimate contact with women.
  2. 1 Samuel 21:5 Lit vessels, a euphemism for the human body.
  3. 1 Samuel 21:6 Lit Face.

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