The priest replied to David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread at my disposal. Only holy bread is available, and then only if your soldiers ¹  have abstained from sexual relations with women.” ² 

biblegateway 1Sa 21:4

The priest answered David and said, "There is no ordinary bread on hand, but there is consecrated bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women."

The priest told him, "There is no ordinary bread on hand. However, there is consecrated bread, but the young men may eat it only if they have kept themselves from women."

"I don’t have any ordinary bread," the chief priest answered David. "But there is holy bread for the young men if they haven’t had sexual intercourse today."

biblegateway 1Sa 21:4

But the priest answered David, "I don’t have any ordinary bread to hand; however, there is some consecrated bread here— provided the men have kept themselves from women."

And the priest answered David, "I have no common bread on hand, but there is holy bread--if the young men have kept themselves from women."

bibleoremus 1Sa 21:4

The priest answered David, "I have no ordinary bread at hand, only holy bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women."

The priest answered David, “I have no ordinary bread available. There is only the sacred bread; but have the young men kept themselves from women?”

biblegateway 1Sa 21:4

And the priest answered David and said, " There is no common bread on hand; but there is holy bread, if the young men have at least kept themselves from women."

And the priest answered David, and said, [There is] no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.

biblegateway 1Sa 21:4

The priest replied to David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread at my disposal. Only holy bread is available, and then only if your soldiers ¹  have abstained from sexual relations with women.” ² 

¹ tn Heb “servants.”

² tn Heb “have kept themselves from women” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “haven’t had sexual relations recently”; NLT “have not slept with any women recently.”