5 So David answered the priest and said to him: “But womankind has been kept away from us the same as formerly when I went out,*+ and the organisms* of the young men continue holy, although the mission itself is ordinary. And how much more so today, when one becomes holy in [his] organism?”

11 At this U·riʹah said to David: “The Ark+ and Israel and Judah are dwelling in booths, and my lord Joʹab and the servants of my lord+ are camping on the face of the field, and I—shall I go into my own house to eat and drink and to lie down with my wife?+ As you are living and as your soul is living,+ I shall not do this thing!”