1Samuel:21:1-9
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Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest :
and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David ,
and said unto him ,
Why art thou alone ,
and no man with thee ?
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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 I have appointed my servants to such and such a place .
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Now therefore what is under thine hand ?
give me five loaves of bread in mine hand ,
or what there is present .
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And 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 .
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And David answered the priest ,
and said unto him ,
Of a truth 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 ,
yea ,
though it were sanctified this day in the vessel .
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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 .
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Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day ,
detained before the LORD ;
and his name was Doeg ,
an Edomite ,
the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul .
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And David said unto Ahimelech ,
And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword ?
for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me ,
because the king '
s business required haste .
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And the priest said ,
The sword of Goliath the Philistine ,
whom thou slewest in the valley 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 .