1 Samuel 21:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

So the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no bread there but the showbread, which was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day it was taken away.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    David replied to the priest, 'Indeed women have been kept away from us, as usual whenever I set out. The bodies of the young men are holy even on ordinary missions, and all the more today.'

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    So the priest gave him holy [bread]; for there was no bread there but the showbread, that was taken from before Jehovah, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Then the prest gaue him of ye holy, in so moch as there was none other bred but the shewbredes, which were taken vp before the LORDE, that there might be other freshbredes set therin the daye wha he toke them awaye.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    So the Priest gaue him halowed bread: for there was no bread there, saue the shewe bread that was taken from before the Lord, to put hote bread there, the day that it was taken away.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And so the priest gaue him halowed bread: for there was none other bread there, saue the shew bread that was taken from before the Lord, to put freshe bread there the day that it was taken away.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    So the priest gave him hallowed [bread]: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    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.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And the priest giveth to him the holy thing, for there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence which is turned aside from the presence of Jehovah to put hot bread in the day of its being taken away.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    So the priest gave him holy `bread'; for there was no bread there but the showbread, that was taken from before Jehovah, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    So the priest gave him holy [bread] ; for there was no bread there but the showbread, that was taken from before Jehovah, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    So the priest gave him the holy bread: there was no other, only the holy bread which had been taken from before the Lord, so that new bread might be put in its place on the day when it was taken away.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    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.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    So the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no bread there other than the bread of the Presence. It had been removed from before the LORD in order to replace it with hot bread on the day it had been taken away.

Referenced Verses

  • Matt 12:3-4 : 3 But he said to them, Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him; 4 how he entered into the house of God, and ate the showbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?
  • Luke 6:3-4 : 3 And Jesus answered them, Have you not read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him; 4 How he went into the house of God, and took and ate the showbread, and also gave to those who were with him, which it is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?
  • Lev 24:5-9 : 5 And you shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes from it: two tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake. 6 And you shall set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD. 7 And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, an offering made by fire to the LORD. 8 Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant. 9 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons', and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.
  • Mark 2:25-27 : 25 And he said to them, Have you never read what David did, when he needed and was hungry, he and those with him? 26 How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the showbread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and also gave to those who were with him? 27 And he said to them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    1Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David and said to him, Why are you alone, and no man with you?

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    3Now therefore, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever there is present.

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

    5And David answered the priest and said to him, Truly, women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yes, though it was sanctified this day in the vessel.

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    3And Jesus answered them, Have you not read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him;

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    2 verses
    75%

    25And he said to them, Have you never read what David did, when he needed and was hungry, he and those with him?

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  • Exod 29:23
    74%

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    72%

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    72%

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    72%

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    71%

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    71%

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    71%

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    71%

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    2 verses
    70%

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    70%

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    2 verses
    70%

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    70%

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    70%

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    70%

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    2 verses
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    69%

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