- David went to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech trembled when he met him, and asked, "Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?"
- David answered Ahimelech the priest, "The king charged me with a certain matter and said to me, 'No one is to know anything about your mission and your instructions.' As for my men, I have told them to meet me at a certain place.
- Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you can find."
- But 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."
- David replied, "Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual whenever I set out. The men's things are holy even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!"
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- 大衛到了挪伯祭司亞希米勒那裡.亞希米勒戰戰兢兢的出來迎接他、問他說、你為甚麼獨自來、沒有人跟隨呢。
- 大衛回答祭司亞希米勒說、王吩咐我一件事、說、我差遣你委託你的這件事、不要使人知道.故此我已派定少年人在某處等候我。
- 現在你手下有甚麼.求你給我五個餅、或是別樣的食物。
- 祭司對大衛說、我手下沒有尋常的餅、只有聖餅.若少年人沒有親近婦人、纔可以給。
- 大衛對祭司說、實在約有三日我們沒有親近婦人.我出來的時候、雖是尋常行路、少年人的器皿還是潔淨的.何況今日不更是潔淨麼。
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