Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
1 Samuel 21:3
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Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found.”
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Now therefore what is under thine hand? give [me] five [loaves of] bread in mine hand, or what there is present.
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Now therefore what is under your hand? Please give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever is available.”
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ASVAmerican Standard Version
Now therefore what is under thy hand? give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatsoever there is present.
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1 Samuel 21
1 Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And when Ahimelech met David, he trembled and asked him, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”
2 “The king has given me a mission,” David replied. “He told me no one is to know about the mission on which I am sending you. And I have directed my young men to meet me at a certain place.
3 Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found.”
4 “There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”
5 David 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!”
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