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 21:5 David said to the priest, “Certainly women have been kept away from us, just as on previous occasions when I have set out. The soldiers’ 3 equipment is holy, even on an ordinary journey. How much more so will they be holy today, along with their equipment!”
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.”
3 tn Heb “servants’.”