⁵ David answered the priest, “Indeed, women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition; the vessels of the young men are holy even when it is a common journey; how much more today will their vessels be holy?”^(A)

²⁰ In a large house there are utensils not only of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for special^[a] use, some for ordinary.^{[b](A) 21} All who cleanse themselves of the things I have mentioned^[c] will become special^[d] utensils, dedicated and useful to the owner of the house, ready for every good work.^(B)

³ For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;^{(A) 4} that each one of you know how to control your own body^[a] in holiness and honor,

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is an instrument whom I have chosen to bring my name before gentiles and kings and before the people of Israel;^(A)

⁹ They shall be for Aaron and his descendants, who shall eat them in a holy place, for they are most holy portions for him from the offerings by fire^[a] to the Lord, a perpetual due.”^(A)