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

³ Now then, what ^[a]do you have on hand? Give ^[b]me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found.” ⁴ The priest answered David and said, “There is no ordinary bread ^[c]on hand, but there is ^(A)consecrated bread, if only the young men have ^(B)kept themselves from women.” ⁵ David answered the priest and said to him, “^(C)Be assured, women have been denied to us as previously when I left and the ^[d](D)bodies of the young men were consecrated, though it was an ordinary journey; how much more then will ^[e]their bodies be consecrated today?” ⁶ So ^(E)the priest gave him consecrated bread; for there was no bread there except the ^(F)bread of the Presence which was removed from its place before the Lord, in order to put hot bread in its place on the day it was taken away.