New Revised Standard Version
The priest answered David, “I have no ordinary bread at hand, only holy bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”

Contemporary English Version
"The only bread I have is the sacred bread," the priest told David. "You can have it if your soldiers didn't sleep with women last night."

New American Bible
But the priest replied to David, “I have no ordinary bread on hand, only holy bread; if the men have abstained from women, you may eat some of that.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the priest answered David, saying: I have no common bread at hand, but only holy bread, if the young men be clean, especially from women?

And the priest answered David, saying: I have no common bread at hand, but only holy bread, if the young men be clean, especially from women?

hallowed bread

1 Samuel 21:6 The priest therefore gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there, but only the loaves of proposition, which had been taken away from before the face of the Lord, that hot loaves might be set up.

Exodus 25:30 And thou shalt set upon the table loaves of proposition in my sight always.

Leviticus 24:5-9 Thou shalt take also fine flour, and shalt bake twelve loaves thereof, two tenths shall be in every loaf. . . .

Matthew 12:3,4 But he said to them: Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and they that were with him: . . .

if the young

Exodus 19:15 He said to them: Be ready against the third day, and come not near your wives.

Zechariah 7:3 To speak to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts, and to the prophets, saying: Must I weep in the fifth month, or must I sanctify myself as I have now done for many years?

1 Corinthians 7:5 Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may give yourselves to prayer: and return together again, lest Satan tempt you for your incontinency.