1. Then David came to Nob to Ahimelek the priest. And Ahimelek trembled coming to meet David and said to him, “Why are you alone and no man is with you?”
2. And David said to Ahimelek the priest, “The king commanded me a matter and said to me, ‘Let no man know anything of the business which I am sending you and what I have commanded you.’ But to the young men I made known a certain place to meet.
3. Now therefore what is in your hand? Give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever can be found.”
4. The priest answered David and said, “There is no common bread at hand. But there is holy bread, if the young men have indeed been kept from women.”