⁴ And the priest answered David, “I have no common bread on hand, but there is ^(A)holy bread—^(B)if the young men have kept themselves from women.”

³ He said to them, ^(A)“Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him: ⁴ how he entered the house of God and ate ^(B)the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?

¹⁵ And he said to the people, “Be ready for the ^(A)third day; ^(B)do not go near a woman.”

³⁰ And you shall set the ^(A)bread of the Presence on the table before me regularly.

^5 (A)Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, ^(B)so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

^3 (A)saying to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and ^(B)the prophets, “Should I weep and ^(C)abstain in ^(D)the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”

⁶ So the priest gave him ^(A)the holy bread, for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence, ^(B)which is removed from before the Lord, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.

Bread for the Tabernacle

⁵ “You shall take fine flour and bake twelve ^(A)loaves from it; two tenths of an ephah^[a] shall be in each loaf. ⁶ And you shall set them in two piles, six in a pile, ^(B)on the table of pure gold^[b] before the Lord. ⁷ And you shall put pure frankincense on each pile, that it may go with the bread as a memorial portion as a food offering to the Lord. ^8 (C)Every Sabbath day Aaron shall arrange it before the Lord regularly; it is from the people of Israel as a covenant forever. ⁹ And ^(D)it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and ^(E)they shall eat it in a holy place, since it is for him a most holy portion out of the Lord's food offerings, a perpetual due.”