⁴ And the Priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but here is ^(A)hallowed bread, if the young men have kept themselves, at least from ^[a]women.

⁵ David then answered the Priest, and said unto him, Certainly women have been separate from us these two or three days since I came out: and the ^[b]vessels of the young men were holy, though the way were profane, and how much more then shall every one ^[c]be sanctified this day in the vessel?

⁶ So the Priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there, save the showbread that was taken from before the Lord, to put hot bread there, the day that it was taken away.