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1 Samuel 21:3-5
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1 Samuel 21:3-5
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3 Now, what food do you have with you? Give me five loaves of bread or whatever you have to eat.”
4 The priest said to David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread here, but I do have some of the holy bread. Your officers can eat it if they have not had sexual relations with any women.”[a]
5 David answered the priest, “We have not been with any women. My men keep their bodies[b] holy every time we go out to fight, even on ordinary missions.[c] And this is especially true today.”
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- 1 Samuel 21:4 Your officers … women This would make the men unclean and not able to eat any food that had been made holy by offering it to God. See Lev. 7:21; 15:1-33.
- 1 Samuel 21:5 bodies Literally, “vessels” or “weapons.”
- 1 Samuel 21:5 My men … missions See 2 Sam. 11:11 and the rules in Deut. 23:9-14.
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