Uncleanness in the Camp

⁹ When you are encamped against your enemies, keep away from everything impure.^{(A) 10} If one of your men is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp and stay there.^(B)

⁴ But the priest answered David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread^(A) on hand; however, there is some consecrated^(B) bread here—provided the men have kept^(C) themselves from women.”

⁵ David replied, “Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual^(D) whenever^[a] I set out. The men’s bodies are holy^(E) even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!”