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1 Samuel 21:4
The priest answered David, and said, “I have no common bread, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”

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1 Samuel 21:5
David answered the priest, and said to him, “Truly, women have been kept from us as usual these three days. When I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was only a common journey. How much more then today shall their vessels be holy?”

Exodus 19:15
He said to the people, “Be ready by the third day. Don’t have sexual relations with a woman.”

Leviticus 15:18
If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.

1 Corinthians 7:5
Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Leviticus 15:16
“ ‘If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Zechariah 7:3
and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”

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Matthew 12:3
But he said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him:

Matthew 12:4
how he entered into God’s house and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?

Mark 2:25
He said to them, “Did you never read what David did when he had need and was hungry—he, and those who were with him?

Mark 2:26
How he entered into God’s house at the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the show bread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?”

Exodus 25:30
You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.

Leviticus 24:5
“You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenths of an ephah shall be in one cake.

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