1 Samuel 21:6
Good News Translation
So the priest gave David the sacred bread, because the only bread he had was the loaves offered to God, which had been removed from the sacred table and replaced by fresh bread. (

New Revised Standard Version
So the priest gave him the holy bread; for there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence, which is removed from before the LORD, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.

Contemporary English Version
The only bread the priest had was the sacred bread that he had taken from the place of worship after putting out the fresh loaves. So he gave it to David.

New American Bible
So the priest gave him holy bread, for no other bread was on hand except the showbread which had been removed from before the LORD and replaced by fresh bread when it was taken away.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

gave him

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: . . .

Mark 2:25-27 And he said to them: Have you never read what David did when he had need and was hungry, himself and they that were with him? . . .

Luke 6:3,4 And Jesus answering them, said: Have you not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was hungry and they that were with him: . . .

hot bread

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

Context
David Takes the Consecrated Bread
5And David answered the priest, and said to him: Truly, as to what concerneth women, we have refrained ourselves from yesterday and the day before, when we came out, and the vessels of the young men were holy. Now this way is defiled, but it shall also be sanctified this day in the vessels. 6The 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.7Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, within the tabernacle of the Lord: and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of Saul's herdsmen.…
Cross References
Matthew 12:3
But he said to them: Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and they that were with him:

Matthew 12:4
How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the loaves of proposition, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for them that were with him, but for the priests only?

Luke 6:3
And Jesus answering them, said: Have you not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was hungry and they that were with him:

Luke 6:4
How he went into the house of God and took and ate the bread of proposition and gave to them that were with him, which is not lawful to eat but only for the priests?

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

1 Samuel 22:10
And he consulted the Lord for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath, the Philistine.

1 Samuel 21:5
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