1 Samuel 21:3-6

Thomson(i) 3 Now therefore hast thou fives loaves at hand? Give me what thou hast ready. 4 And the priest in reply said to David, I have no common bread at hand. Because there is none but the holy bread; if thy servants have but kept themselves from women they may eat it. 5 And David in answer to the priest, said to him, Of a truth we have kept ourselves from women these three days. When I set out on the journey, all the servants were purified [though the journey was on secular affairs] because they were to be holy this day, on account of my provision for it. 6 So Abimelech the priest gave him the presence loaves, because he had no other, but only those loaves which were taken from the presence of the Lord, that fresh bread might be put in their place on the day he took them.