⁴ And the priest answered David and said, “There is no ^[a]common bread on hand; but there is ^(A)holy^[b] bread, ^(B)if the young men have at least kept themselves from women.”

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

¹⁵ And he said to the people, “Be ready for the third day; ^(A)do not come near your wives.”

³⁰ And you shall set the ^(A)showbread on the table before Me always.

^5 (A)Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that ^(B)Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

³ and to ^(A)ask the priests who were in the house of the Lord of hosts, and the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in ^(B)the fifth month and ^[a]fast as I have done for so many years?”

⁶ So the priest ^(A)gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the showbread ^(B)which had been taken from before the Lord, in order to put hot bread in its place on the day when it was taken away.

The Bread of the Tabernacle

⁵ “And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve ^(A)cakes with it. Two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake. ⁶ You shall set them in two rows, six in a row, ^(B)on the pure gold table before the Lord. ⁷ And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be on the bread for a ^(C)memorial, an offering made by fire to the Lord. ^8 (D)Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant. ⁹ And ^(E)it shall be for Aaron and his sons, ^(F)and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the offerings of the Lord made by fire, by a perpetual statute.”