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David Takes the Consecrated Bread

1 Samuel 21:3

In 11 translations

BSB
Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found.”
KJV
Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present.present: Heb. found
WEB
Now therefore what is under your hand? Please give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever is available.”
ASV
Now therefore what is under thy hand? give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatsoever there is present.
LSV
And now, what is there under your hand? Give five loaves into my hand, or that which is found.”
YLT
and now, what is there under thy hand? five loaves give into my hand, or that which is found.'
DBY
And now what is under thy hand? give me five loaves in my hand, or what may be found.
DRC
Now therefore if thou have any thing at hand, though it were but five loaves, give me, or whatsoever thou canst find.
GNV
Nowe therefore if thou hast ought vnder thine hande, giue me fiue cakes of bread, or what commeth to hand.
JPS21:4
Now therefore what is under thy hand? five loaves of bread? give them in my hand, or whatsoever there is present.'
LXXE21:4
And now if there are under thy hand five loaves, give into my hand what is ready.

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Original-language editions

WLC21:4
וְעַתָּ֗ה מַה־יֵּ֧שׁ תַּֽחַת־יָדְךָ֛ חֲמִשָּׁה־לֶ֖חֶם תְּנָ֣ה בְיָדִ֑י א֖וֹ הַנִּמְצָֽא׃KJV:1Sam.21.3
LXX-Br21:4
Καὶ νῦν εἰ εἰσὶν ὑπὸ τὴν χεῖρά σου πέντε ἄρτοι, δὸς εἰς χεῖρά μου τὸ εὑρεθέν.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 Samuel 21:4“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.”
  • Judges 9:29If only this people were under my authority, I would remove Abimelech; I would say to him, ‘Muster your army and come out!’”
  • Isaiah 3:6A man will seize his brother within his father’s house: “You have a cloak—you be our leader! Take charge of this heap of rubble.”

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 21:4 in some Bibles
  • 21:3 in most Bibles

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