3 Now therefore, if you have anything at hand, even five loaves of bread, or whatever you may find, give it to me.'
4 And the priest, responding to David, said to him: 'I have no common bread at hand, but only holy bread. Are the young men clean, especially from women?'
5 And David responded to the priest, and said to him: 'Indeed, as concerns being with women, we have abstained since yesterday and the day before, when we departed, and so the vessels of the young men have been holy. And although, this journey has been defiled, it will also be sanctified today as concerns the vessels.'
6 Therefore, the priest gave to him sanctified bread. For there was no bread there, but only the bread of the Presence, which had been taken away from before the face of the Lord, so that fresh loaves might be set up.
7 Now a certain man among the servants of Saul was there on that day, inside the tabernacle of the Lord. And his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the most powerful among the shepherds of Saul.
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