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 2 have abstained from sexual relations with women.” 3
1 tn Heb “and she did not set her heart.”
2 tn Heb “servants.”
3 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.”