1 Samuel 21:5

David answered, “Women have indeed been kept from us, as is usual when I set out. And the equipment of the young men is holy, as it is even on common missions, and all the more at this time.”
BSB · Berean Standard Bible
And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.

Note yea…: or, especially when this day there is other sanctified in the vessel

KJV · King James Version
David answered the priest, and said to him, “Truly, women have been kept from us as usual these three days. When I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was only a common journey. How much more then today shall their vessels be holy?”
WEB · World English Bible
And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days; when I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was but a common journey; how much more then to-day shall their vessels be holy?
ASV · American Standard Version

Related passages

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.

the vessels
Acts 9:15; 1 Thessalonians 4:3, 4; 2 Timothy 2:20, 21; 1 Peter 3:17
in a manner
Leviticus 24:9
yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel
or,especially when this day there is other sanctified in the vessel.
Leviticus 8:26