⁵ David replied, "Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual whenever[1] I set out. The men's bodies are holy even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!"

⁵ And David answereth the priest, and saith to him, 'Surely, if women have been restrained from us as heretofore in my going out, then the vessels of the young men are holy, and it 'is' a common way: and also, surely to-day it is sanctified in the vessel.'