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.

³ And Jesus answered them, ^(A)“Have you not read ^(B)what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: ⁴ how he entered the house of God and took and ate ^(C)the bread of the Presence, ^(D)which is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those with him?”

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?

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.”

²⁵ And he said to them, ^(A)“Have you never read ^(B)what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him: ²⁶ how he entered the house of God, in the time of^{[a] (C)}Abiathar the high priest, and ate ^(D)the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those who were with him?” ²⁷ And he said to them, ^(E)“The Sabbath was made for man, ^(F)not man for the Sabbath.