1 Samuel 20:26

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²⁶Saul did not say anything that day, because he thought, “Something must have happened to him so that he is impure, surely he is unclean.”^[a]

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1 Samuel 20:26 The meal that accompanied the festival of the new moon involved a sacrifice to God and required ritual purification (see Ex 19:10, Lev 15:16, Num 19:11-22). Without such a cleansing, David could not participate.

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