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B I ◄ ← 1 Sam 21:4 ↓ → ► ≡ ═ ©
Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)
OET (OET-RV) “There is no ordinary bread on hand,” the priest answered. “But there is the sacred bread, if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”![]()
OET-LV (SA1 21:5) [fn] and_ the_priest/officer _he_answered DOM Dāvid and_he/it_said there_is_not bread_of profaneness to under hand_of_my if/because (if) bread_of holiness there_is if the_young_men they_have_kept_themselves only from_a_woman.
21:5 Note: KJB: 1Sam.21.4![]()
UHB 5 וַיַּ֨עַן הַכֹּהֵ֤ן אֶת־דָּוִד֙ וַיֹּ֔אמֶר אֵֽין־לֶ֥חֶם חֹ֖ל אֶל־תַּ֣חַת יָדִ֑י כִּֽי־אִם־לֶ֤חֶם קֹ֨דֶשׁ֙ יֵ֔שׁ אִם־נִשְׁמְר֥וּ הַנְּעָרִ֖ים אַ֥ךְ מֵאִשָּֽׁה׃פ ‡
(5 vayyaˊan hakkohēn ʼet-dāvid vayyoʼmer ʼēyn-leḩem ḩol ʼel-taḩat yādiy kiy-ʼim-leḩem qodesh yēsh ʼim-nishmərū hannəˊārim ʼak mēʼishshāh.◊)
Key: khaki:verbs.
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BrLXX (SA1 21:5) Καὶ ἀπεκρίθη ὁ ἱερεὺς τῷ Δαυὶδ, καὶ εἶπεν, οὔκ εἰσιν ἄρτοι βέβηλοι ὑπὸ τὴν χεῖρά μου, ὅτι ἀλλʼ ἢ ἄρτοι ἅγιοί εἰσιν· εἰ πεφυλαγμένα τὰ παιδάριά ἐστι πλὴν ἀπὸ γυναικὸς, καὶ φάγεται.
(Kai apekrithaʸ ho hiereus tōi Dawid, kai eipen, ouk eisin artoi bebaʸloi hupo taʸn ⱪeira mou, hoti allʼ aʸ artoi hagioi eisin; ei pefulagmena ta paidaria esti plaʸn apo gunaikos, kai fagetai.)
BrTr (SA1 21:5) And the priest answered David, and said, There are no common loaves under my hand, for I have none but holy loaves: if the young men have been kept at least from women, then they shall eat them.
ULT And the priest answered David and said, “There is no common bread toward under my hand, but there is holy bread. If the young men have only kept themselves from women.”
UST Ahimelech told David, “There is no ordinary bread here, but I have some of the sacred bread that we put on the table in the sacred tent. I will give your men that bread to eat if they have not recently become ceremonially unclean by having sexual relations with women.”
BSB & MSB “[There is] no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”
OEB No OEB SA1 21:4 book available
WEBBE & WMBB 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.”
NET The priest replied to David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread at my disposal. Only holy bread is available, and then only if your soldiers have abstained from sexual relations with women.”
LSV And the priest answers David and says, “There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the youths have been kept from women.”
FBV “There's no ordinary bread,” the priest told David, “but there's some holy bread, as long as your men have not slept with any women lately.”
T4T The priest answered David, “There is no ordinary bread here, but I have some of the sacred bread that was placed before Yahweh. Your men may eat it if they have not slept with [EUP] women recently.”
LEB The priest answered David and said, “There is no ordinary bread ⌊here at hand⌋;[fn] there is only holy bread, but only if the young men have kept themselves from women.”
21:4 Literally “under my hand”
BBE And the priest, answering David, said, I have no common bread here but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.
Moff No Moff SA1 21:4 book available
JPS (SA1 21:5) (21-6) And David answered the priest, and said unto him: 'Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days; when I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was but a common journey; how much more then to-day, when there shall be holy bread in their vessels?'
ASV And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.
DRA And the priest answered David, saying: I have no common bread at hand, but only holy bread, if the young men be clean, especially from women?
YLT And the priest answereth David, and saith, 'There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if the youths have been kept only from women.'
Drby And the priest answered David and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.
RV And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.
SLT And the priest will answer David and say, No common bread under my hand, but there is consecrated bread; if the boys watched themselves only from women.
Wbstr And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.
KJB-1769 And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.
(And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed/consecrated bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.)
KJB-1611 And the Priest answered Dauid, and said, There is no common bread vnder mine hand, but there is hallowed bread: if the young men haue kept themselues at least from women.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and punctuation)
Bshps And the priest aunswered Dauid, and sayd: There is no common bread vnder myne hand, but here is halowed bread: if the young me haue kept them selues, specially from women.
(And the priest answered David, and said: There is no common bread under mine hand, but here is hallowed/consecrated bread: if the young me have kept themselves, specially from women.)
Gnva And the Priest answered Dauid, and saide, There is no common bread vnder mine hande, but here is halowed bread, if the yong men haue kept themselues, at least from women.
(And the Priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but here is hallowed/consecrated bread, if the young men have kept themselves, at least from women.)
Cvdl The prest answered Dauid, and sayde: I haue no comen bred vnder my hande, but the holy bred, yf the yonge men haue onely refrained them selues from wemen.
(The priest answered David, and said: I have no came bread under my hand, but the holy bred, if the young men have only refrained themselves from women.)
Wycl And the preest answeride to Dauid, and seide to hym, Y haue `not lewid, `that is, comyn, looues at hoond, but oneli hooli breed; whether the children ben clene, and moost of wymmen?
(And the priest answered to David, and said to him, I have not lewd, that is, common, loaves at hand, but only holy breed; whether the children been clean, and most of women?)
Luth (SA1 21:5) Der Priester antwortete David und sprach: Ich habe kein gemein Brot unter meiner Hand, sondern heilig Brot; wenn sich nur die Knaben von Weibern enthalten hätten!
(The priest(s) replied David and spoke: I have no/not mean/nasty bread under mine hand, rather holy bread; if/when itself/yourself/themselves only the boys/lads from women contain/include would_have!)
ClVg Et respondens sacerdos ad David, ait illi: Non habeo laicos panes ad manum, sed tantum panem sanctum: si mundi sunt pueri, maxime a mulieribus?
(And responding priest to David, he_said them: Not/No I_have layman bread/food to hand, but only bread/food holy: when/but_if world are children, especially/most from women?)
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
אֵֽין־לֶ֥חֶם חֹ֖ל אֶל־תַּ֣חַת יָדִ֑י
not food/grain/bread ordinary to/towards (Some words not found in UHB: and,he_answered the=priest/officer DOM Dāvid and=he/it_said not food/grain/bread ordinary to/towards below/instead_of hand_of,my that/for/because/then/when if food/grain/bread consecrated there_is if kept the_young,men only from,a_woman )
See how you translated the similar expression in [21:3](../21/03.md). Alternate translation: [I have no common bread on hand] or [I have no common bread available]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis
אִם־נִשְׁמְר֥וּ הַנְּעָרִ֖ים אַ֥ךְ מֵאִשָּֽׁה
if if (Some words not found in UHB: and,he_answered the=priest/officer DOM Dāvid and=he/it_said not food/grain/bread ordinary to/towards below/instead_of hand_of,my that/for/because/then/when if food/grain/bread consecrated there_is if kept the_young,men only from,a_woman )
Ahimelech is leaving out some of the words that in many languages a sentence would need in order to be complete. You can supply these words from the context if that would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: [The young men may have it if only they have kept themselves from women]