1 Samuel 21:6 “So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread…”

1 Samuel 21:6

So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before the LORD and replaced with hot bread on the day it was taken away.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the show bread that was taken from before the LORD, to be replaced with hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

American Standard Version

So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the showbread, that was taken from before Jehovah, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

Geneva Bible 1599

So the Priest gaue him halowed bread: for there was no bread there, saue the shewe bread that was taken from before the Lord, to put hote bread there, the day that it was taken away.

Darby Translation

And the priest gave him holy [bread]; for there was no bread there but the shew-loaves that were taken from before Jehovah, to put on hot bread in the day when they were taken away.

Young's Literal Translation

And the priest giveth to him the holy thing, for there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence which is turned aside from the presence of Jehovah to put hot bread in the day of its being taken away.

Bible in Basic English

So the priest gave him the holy bread: there was no other, only the holy bread which had been taken from before the Lord, so that new bread might be put in its place on the day when it was taken away.

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Cross references

“gave him”

Mark 2:25–27 Matthew 12:3 Matthew 12:4 Luke 6:3 Luke 6:4

Mark 2:25–27 · BSB

Jesus replied, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need?

Matthew 12:3 · BSB

Jesus replied, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

Matthew 12:4 · BSB

He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for them to eat, but only for the priests.

Luke 6:3 · BSB

Jesus replied, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

Luke 6:4 · BSB

He entered the house of God, took the consecrated bread and gave it to his companions, and ate what is lawful only for the priests to eat.”

“hot bread”

Leviticus 24:5–9

Leviticus 24:5–9 · BSB

You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5David answered, “Women have indeed been kept from us, as is usual when I set out. And the bodies of the young men are holy even on common missions. How much more so today!”

7Now one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the LORD. And his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief shepherd for Saul.

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