You must not eat bread, or roasted grain, or fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
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You must not eat bread, or roasted grain, or fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
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And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
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And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor fresh ears, until this selfsame day, until ye have brought the offering of your God; it is a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
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- Exodus 34:26 “You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
- Genesis 4:4-5 Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering, but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.
- Leviticus 3:17 “ ‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’ ”
- Leviticus 10:11 You are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses.”
- Leviticus 19:23-25 “ ‘When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. For three years it shall be forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten. But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, for giving praise to Yahweh. In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am Yahweh your God.
- Leviticus 25:2-3 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall sow your field six years, and you shall prune your vineyard six years, and gather in its fruits;
- Numbers 15:20-21 Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering. As the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it. Of the first of your dough, you shall give to Yahweh a wave offering throughout your generations.
- Deuteronomy 16:12 You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. You shall observe and do these statutes.
- Joshua 5:11-12 They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, in the same day. The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn’t have manna any more, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
- Nehemiah 9:14 and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant,
- Psalms 19:8 Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, full ears.
Or, full ears.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 23:14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor…
Lev 23:14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: [it shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Ver. 14. And ye shall eat neither bread.] It was fit that God the giver should have the first.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Bread, made of new wheat, as the nature and…
Bread, made of new wheat, as the nature and reason of the law showeth.
Nor green ears, which were usual, not only for offerings to God, as Lev 2:14, but also for man’s food. See Jos 5:11; Rth 2:14; 1Sa 17:17; Mat 12:1.
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Until the selfsame day: good reason God should be first served and owned as the supreme Landlord.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn,…
And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears,.... That is, they were not allowed to make bread of the new corn, as Aben Ezra and Gersom explain it; for they were obliged to eat unleavened bread at this time: but it might not be made of the new corn, until the above offering was made; nay, they were not allowed to parch any of the grains of corn, and eat them; yea, even they might not pluck and eat the green ears, though of ever so small a quantity. The Jews say (q), if it was the quantity of an olive of either of these, a man was to be beaten for it:
until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God; which includes all the offerings on this account, the offering of the firstfruits, the offering of the he lamb, and the meat offering and the drink offering; until these were offered up, the new corn might not be eaten in any form:
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it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations; until the Messiah came, who is the substance of these shadows:
in all your dwellings; not at Jerusalem only, but in the several parts of the land of Canaan; yea, as Ben Gersom says, whether in the land, or without the land; a later writer says, it is forbidden to eat of the new corn at this time, whether bread, parched corn, or green ears, until the beginning of the night of the eighteenth of Nisan, and in the land of Israel, until the beginning of the night of the seventeenth of Nisan (r).
(q) Maimon. Hilchot Maacolot Asurot, c. 10. sect. 2, 3. (r) Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. c. 489. sect. 10. so Lebush, c. 489. sect. 10.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Bread - Made of new wheat. Nor green ears…
Bread - Made of new wheat. Nor green ears - Which were usual, not only for offerings to God, but also for man's food.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 14. Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched…
Verse 14. Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears] It is right that God, the dispenser of every blessing, should be acknowledged as such, and the first-fruits of the field, &c., dedicated to him. Concerning the dedication of the first-fruits, See Clarke on Ex 22:29. Parched ears of corn and green ears, fried, still constitute a part, and not a disagreeable one, of the food of the Arabs now resident in the Holy Land. See Hasselquist.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Lev 23:14. Ye shall eat neither bread nor corn…
Lev 23:14. Ye shall eat neither bread nor corn — Of this year’s growth. This was a most reasonable testimony of their respect for God, to give him the first place, and pay their tribute of gratitude to the donor before they used his gifts. They who lived at a distance from the tabernacle, or temple, were allowed to eat new corn on this day after mid-day, because the offering to God was always presented before that time.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Corn (polentam). Some translate bruised corn, or a sort…
Corn (polentam). Some translate bruised corn, or a sort of cake. See chap. ii. 4. --- Dwellings, even out of the holy land, which was peculiar to this law. (Grotius)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 14. Parched corn… green ears — These, being fried,…
14. Parched corn… green ears — These, being fried, are still eaten with relish by the Arabs now dwelling in Palestine. See note on Rth_2:14. Abstinence from the fruits of the earth till thanks have been rendered to the bountiful Giver in the form of an offering of firstfruits was a practice quite prevalent among the pagan nations. Pliny says of the ancient Romans, “They did not so much as taste of their corn and wine till the priests had offered the firstfruits.” A statute for ever. See note on Lev_3:17.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 14. For ‘parched corn’ and ‘fresh ears,’ see on…
14. For ‘parched corn’ and ‘fresh ears,’ see on Lev_2:14-16.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (14) And ye shall eat neither bread.—In acknowledgment of…
(14) And ye shall eat neither bread.—In acknowledgment of the bountiful Giver of the new harvest, it was ordained that the Israelites were not to taste any of it till they had dedicated the first- fruit to the Lord. By bread is meant the unleavened bread which they were now enjoined to eat. The unleavened bread for the first and the second days of Passover was prepared from the last year’s harvest, but the bread for the following days could only be made from the new harvest after the normal dedication of it to the Lord.
Parched corn.—See Lev_2:14.
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Green ears.—The expression carmel, which the Authorised version renders “full ears” in Lev. 214, the authorities during the second Temple took to denote the five kinds of the new grain, viz., wheat, rye, oats, and two kinds of barley, which were forbidden to be used in any form whatsoever prior to this public dedication of the harvest to the Lord. The same custom of dedicating the first-fruits of the harvest to the divine beings also obtained amongst the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and other nations of antiquity.
A statute for ever . . . —See Lev_3:17; Lev_7:23-25.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 23:14 Israelites could not eat food from the harvest…
23:14 Israelites could not eat food from the harvest on that day until they acknowledged God’s provision by presenting him with the appropriate offering.
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