1 SAMUEL 21:7 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.”
And David answered the priest and said, Truly women have been kept from us for three days — David's *va'yaan David et ha'kohen va'yomer ki im-ishto*, David answered, asserting sexual abstinence as a sign of readiness for the sacred. The *shlosh yamim*, three days, establishes a period of purity preceding access to holy things. David's claim invokes the cultic logic that allows his consumption of forbidden bread: spiritual necessity overrides ritual law.
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