1. THEN DAVID went to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest; and Ahimelech was afraid at meeting David, and said to him, Why are you alone and no man with you?
2. David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has charged me with a matter and has told me, Let no man know anything of the mission on which I send you and with what I have charged you. I have appointed the young men to a certain place.
3. Now what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you may have.
4. And the priest answered David, There is no common bread on hand, but there is hallowed bread–if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.