⁵ David answered the priest, saying to him, “Indeed, women were kept from us as is usual^[a] whenever I go out on a mission,^[b] and the equipment^[c] of the young men is consecrated even when it’s an ordinary journey, so how much more is their equipment^[d] consecrated today?” ⁶ So the priest gave him consecrated bread because no bread was there except the Bread of the Presence that had been removed from the Lord’s presence and replaced with hot bread on the day it was taken away.

⁷ Now, Doeg the Edomite, one of Saul’s officials,^[e] was there that day, detained in the Lord’s presence. He was the chief of Saul’s shepherds.