15 He also said to the people, “Be ready for the third day; do not go near a woman.”

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15 Then he said to the people, “Prepare yourselves for the third day. Abstain(A) from sexual relations.”

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15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.

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David answered the priest and said to him, “(A)Be assured, women have been denied to us as previously when I left and the [a](B)bodies of the young men were consecrated, though it was an ordinary journey; how much more then will [b]their bodies be consecrated today?”

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  1. 1 Samuel 21:5 Lit vessels
  2. 1 Samuel 21:5 Lit it be holy in the vessel

David replied, “Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual(A) whenever[a] I set out. The men’s bodies are holy(B) even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!”

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  1. 1 Samuel 21:5 Or from us in the past few days since

And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.

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