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And David answered the priest and said to him, “(A)Surely women have been kept from us as previously when I set out and the (B)vessels of the young men were holy, though it was an ordinary journey; how much more then today will [a]their vessels be holy?” So (C)the priest gave him consecrated bread; for there was no bread there but the (D)bread of the Presence which was removed from before Yahweh, in order to put hot bread in its place when it was taken away.

Now one of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh; and his name was (E)Doeg the Edomite, the (F)chief of Saul’s shepherds.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 21:5 Lit it be holy in the vessel