1 SAMUEL 21:5 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 1
“And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.”
And the priest answered David and said, There is no common bread at hand, but there is holy bread — Ahimelech's *va'yaan ha'kohen et David va'yomer ein lechem chol*, there is no common bread, indicates that the sanctuary contains only the *lechem kodesh* (holy bread), the showbread kept in the tabernacle. The distinction between *lechem chol* (common bread) and *lechem kodesh* (holy bread) invokes the cultic law: only priests may eat the consecrated bread.
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