4The priest answered David, and said, |There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.|


In Context

1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, |Why are you alone, and no man with you?|

2 David said to Ahimelech the priest, |The king has commanded me a business, and has said to me, 'Let no man know anything of the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you; and I have appointed the young men to such and such a place.'

3 Now therefore what is under your hand? Give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever there is present.|

4 The priest answered David, and said, |There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.|

5 David answered the priest, and said to him, |Truly, women have been kept from us about these three days. When I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was but a common journey. How much more then today shall their vessels be holy?|

6 So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the show bread, that was taken from before Yahweh, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

1 Samuel 21:4 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

21:4But the priest answered David, "I don't have any ordinary bread on hand; however, there is some consecrated bread here-provided the men have kept themselves from women."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:4And the priest answered David, and said, [There is] no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:4And the priest answered David, saying: I have no common bread at hand, but only holy bread, if the young men be clean, especially from women?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:4And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:4And the priest answered David and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:4And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:4And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:4And the priest answereth David, and saith, 'There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if the youths have been kept only from women.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:4And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.