1 SAMUEL 21:6 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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.”
If the young men have at least kept themselves from women — Ahimelech's *im nitshmertu ha'ne'arim mei'isha*, if the young men have kept themselves from women, references the ritual purity requirement for handling sacred bread. The *ketziatz* (vessels or use) for holy bread demands *kedush*, sanctity, which sexual contact would violate. The priest's question affirms David's status as a man under ceremonial obligation.
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