1Samuel:21:1-9

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* Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest ; and Ahimelech came to meet David trembling , and said unto him : 'Why art thou alone , and no man with thee ?' * And David said unto Ahimelech the priest : 'The king hath commanded me a business , and hath said unto me : Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee , and what I have commanded thee ; and the young men have I appointed to such and such a place . * Now therefore what is under thy hand ? five loaves of bread ? give them in my hand , or whatsoever there is present .' * And 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 .' * And David answered the priest , and said unto him : 'Of a truth 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 to-day , when there shall be holy bread in their vessels ?' * So the priest gave him holy bread ; for there was no bread there but the showbread , that was taken from before the LORD , to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away .-- * Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day , detained before the LORD ; and his name was Doeg the Edomite , the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul .-- * And David said unto Ahimelech : 'And is there peradventure here under thy hand spear or sword ? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me , because the king 's business required haste .' * And the priest said : 'The sword of Goliath the Philistine , whom thou slewest in the vale of Elah , behold , it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod ; if thou wilt take that , take it ; for there is no other save that here .' And David said : 'There is none like that ; give it me .'

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