So the priest gave him holy [bread;] for there was no bread there but the showbread which had been taken from before the LORD, in order to put hot bread [in its place] on the day when it was taken away.

"And you shall set the showbread on the table before Me always.

" And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it. Two-tenths [of an ephah] shall be in each cake.

"And you shall put pure frankincense on [each] row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

"And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it [is] most holy to him from the offerings of the LORD made by fire, by a perpetual statute."

But He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him:

"how he entered the house of God and ate the showbread which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?

And he said to the people, "Be ready for the third day; do not come near [your] wives."

[and] to ask the priests who [were] in the house of the LORD of hosts, and the prophets, saying, "Should I weep in the fifth month and fast as I have done for so many years?"

Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.