1 Samuel 21:4-6

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[4] 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. [5] David answered the priest, and said to 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 today shall their vessels be holy? [6] So the priest gave him holy [bread]; for there was no bread there but the show bread, that was taken from before Yahweh, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

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1 Samuel 21:4-6 mentions Gath and Valley of Elah.

Gath · Ori~
Valley of Elah · Shabatashtiot

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