22 Next he put the table+ in the tent of meeting on the north side of the tabernacle outside the curtain, 23 and he arranged the row of bread+ on it before Jehovah, just as Jehovah had commanded Moses.

4 But the priest answered David: “There is no ordinary bread on hand, but there is holy bread+—provided that the young men have kept away from women.”*+

25 But he said to them: “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and the men with him were hungry?+ 26 How, in the account about A·biʹa·thar+ the chief priest, he entered into the house of God and ate the loaves of presentation, which it is not lawful for anybody to eat except the priests,+ and he also gave some to the men who were with him?”