⁵ Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.

¹⁵ And he said to the people, Be ready by the third day: do not come near a woman.

⁴ And the priest, answering David, said, I have no common bread here but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.

⁵ And David in answer said to the priest, Certainly women have been kept from us; and as has been done before when I have gone out the arms of the young men were made holy, even though it was a common journey; how much more today will their arms be made holy.

¹⁶ Get the people together, make the mass of the people holy, send for the old men, get together the children and babies at the breast: let the newly married man come out of his room and the bride from her tent.

⁵ For this reason, when I was no longer able to keep quiet, I sent to get news of your faith, fearing that you might be tested by the Evil One and that our work might come to nothing.

¹² And the land will give itself to weeping, every family separately; the family of David by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Nathan by themselves, and their wives by themselves;

¹³ The family of Levi by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by themselves, and their wives by themselves;

¹⁴ And all the other families by themselves, and their wives by themselves.

³ And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in past years?

¹⁰ Then said Jesus to him, Away, Satan: for it is in the Writings, Give worship to the Lord your God and be his servant only.

¹¹ But he said to them, Not all men are able to take in this saying, but only those to whom it is given.