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1 Samuel 21:5

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 5 David answered the priest: “Women have certainly been kept away from us as on previous occasions when I went out on a campaign.+ If the bodies of the young men are holy even when the mission is ordinary, how much more so today should they be holy!”

1 Samuel 21:5

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 5 David answered the priest: “Women have certainly been kept away from us as on previous occasions when I went out on a campaign.+ If the bodies of the young men are holy even when the mission is ordinary, how much more so today should they be holy!”

1 Samuel 21:5

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 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?”

1 Samuel 21:5

The Bible in Living English
- 5 * And David answered the priest “O, but we are barred from womankind as we used to be; when I left, the men’s things were in a sacred condition though it was everyday business they were on—how much more when today it is every way sacred!”

1 Samuel 21:5

American Standard Version
- 5 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 shall their vessels be holy?

1 Samuel 21:5

King James Version
- 5 And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.