A request for bread

4Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is available.

5The priest answered David and said, “There is no ordinary bread on hand, but there is holy bread—if the young men have kept themselves from women.”

6David answered the priest and said to him, “Indeed, women have been kept from us as before, when I went out, and the young men’s vessels are holy, though it is an ordinary journey. How much more today will it be made holy in the vessel.”