1 Samuel 21:3-5

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

³ Now then, what have you at hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here.’ ⁴ The priest answered David, ‘I have no ordinary bread at hand, only holy bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.’ ⁵ David answered the priest, ‘Indeed, women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition; the vessels of the young men are holy even when it is a common journey; how much more today will their vessels be holy?’