3 ⌊David added,⌋ “Now, what do you have ⌊to eat⌋? Give me five loaves of bread or whatever you can find.”
4 “I don’t have any ordinary bread,” the chief priest answered David. “But there is holy bread for the young men if they haven’t had sexual intercourse ⌊today⌋.”
5 David answered the priest, “Of course women have been kept away from us as usual when we go ⌊on a mission⌋. The young men’s bodies are kept holy even on ordinary campaigns. How much more then will their bodies be holy today?”
6 So the priest gave him holy ⌊bread⌋ because he only had the bread of the presence which had been taken from the Lord’s presence and replaced with warm bread that day.
7 That same day one of Saul’s servants who was obligated to stay in the Lord’s presence was there. His name was Doeg. A foreman for Saul’s shepherds, he was from Edom.
8 David asked Ahimelech, “Don’t you have a spear or a sword here? I didn’t take either my spear or any other weapon because the king’s business was urgent.”
9 The chief priest answered, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Elah Valley, is here. It is wrapped in a cloth behind the priestly ephod. If you want to take it, take it. There’s no other weapon here.”David said, “There’s none like it. Let me have the sword.”