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.”
1 Samuel 21:4 Cross References - MSB
Exodus 19:15
15 “Be prepared for the third day,” he said to the people. “Do not draw near to a woman.”
Exodus 25:30
30 And place the Bread of the Presence on the table before Me at all times.
Leviticus 24:5-9
5 You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,
6 and set them in two rows—six per row—on the table of pure gold before the LORD.
7 And you are to place pure frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
8 Every Sabbath day the bread is to be set out before the LORD on behalf of the Israelites as a permanent covenant.
9 It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place; for it is to him a most holy part of the offerings made by fire to the LORD—his portion forever.”
1 Samuel 21:6
6 So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before the LORD and replaced with hot bread on the day it was taken away.
Zechariah 7:3
3 by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”
Matthew 12:3-4
1 Corinthians 7:5
5 Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to fasting and to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control.