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:

³ Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here.” 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.” ⁵ And David answered the priest, “Truly women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition. The vessels of the young men are holy even when it is an ordinary journey. How much more today will their vessels be holy?” ⁶ So the priest gave him ^(C)the holy bread, for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence, ^(D)which is removed from before the Lord, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.

²⁶ He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?”

²⁶ And as for the dead being raised, ^(A)have you not read in ^(B)the book of Moses, in ^(C)the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ^(D)‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

²⁰ There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no offspring.