1 At that time יהושע went through the grain fields on the Sabbath. And His taught ones were hungry, and began to pluck heads of grain, to eat.
2 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, “Look, Your taught ones are doing what is not right to do on the Sabbath!”
3 But He said to them, “Have you not read what Dawiḏ did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him:
4 how he went into the House of Elohim and ate the showbread which was not right for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?
5 “Or did you not read in the Torah that on the Sabbath the priests in the Set-apart Place profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?
6 “But I say to you that in this place there is One greater than the Set-apart Place.
7 “And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire compassion and not offering,’ you would not have condemned the blameless.