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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 [fn] and_now what is_there under hand_of_you five bread[s] give in/on/at/with_hand_of_me or the_found.
21:4 Note: KJB: 1Sam.21.3
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, red:negative.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).
BrLXX Καὶ νῦν εἰ εἰσὶν ὑπὸ τὴν χεῖρά σου πέντε ἄρτοι, δὸς εἰς χεῖρά μου τὸ εὑρεθέν.
(Kai nun ei eisin hupo taʸn ⱪeira sou pente artoi, dos eis ⱪeira mou to heurethen. )
BrTr And now if there are under thy hand five loaves, give into my hand what is ready.
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 “[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.”
MSB (Same as BSB above)
OEB The priest answered David, ‘There is no ordinary bread at hand. There is holy bread, but only if the young men have kept themselves from women.’
WEBBE 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.”
WMBB (Same as above)
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 No LEB 1 SAM book available
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 1 SAM book available
JPS (21-5) 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.'
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 No Bshps 1 SAM book available
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 No Cvdl 1 SAM book available
Wycl No Wycl 1 SAM book available
Luth No Luth 1 SAM book available
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 habeo laicos bread/food to hand, but only bread/food holy: when/but_if world are children, especially/most from womanibus? )
RP-GNT No RP-GNT 1 SAM book available
21:4 Only priests were permitted to partake of holy bread (see Exod 25:22-30; Lev 24:5-9), and only within the sacred precincts.
• slept with any women: The consecrated bread was to be eaten only by the ritually pure, so the priest verified that David’s men were free from ritual impurity caused by sexual activity (see Lev 15:16-18). Typically, such bread would not be available for consumption by laity. The priest made an exception in this case probably because he sensed the men’s physical needs and he believed they were on a royal mission.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
אֵֽין־לֶ֥חֶם חֹ֖ל אֶל־תַּ֣חַת יָדִ֑י
(Some words not found in UHB: and=now what? have on hand_of,you five food/grain/bread give, in/on/at/with,hand_of,me or the,found )
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
(Some words not found in UHB: and=now what? have on hand_of,you five food/grain/bread give, in/on/at/with,hand_of,me or the,found )
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]