1 Samuel 21:4
The priest answered David, and said, “I have no common bread, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”1 Samuel 21:4 · WEB
This verse in other languages
- ગુજરાતી — 1 શમુએલ ૨૧:૪
- યાજકે દાઉદને ઉત્તર આપીને કહ્યું, “મારા હાથમાં એકપણ સાધારણ રોટલી નથી. પણ પવિત્ર રોટલી છે જે જુવાન પુરુષો સ્ત્રીઓથી દૂર રહેલા હોય તેઓને જ તે અપાય.”
- हिन्दी — 1 शमूएल २१:४
- याजक ने दाऊद से कहा, “मेरे पास साधारण रोटी तो नहीं है, केवल पवित्र रोटी है; इतना हो कि वे जवान स्त्रियों से अलग रहे हों।”
In context
2David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has commanded me to do something, and has said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you. I have sent the young men to a certain place.’
3Now therefore what is under your hand? Please give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever is available.”
4The priest answered David, and said, “I have no common bread, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”
5David answered the priest, and said to him, “Truly, women have been kept from us as usual these three days. When I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was only a common journey. How much more then today shall their vessels be holy?”
6So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the show bread that was taken from before the LORD, to be replaced with hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
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