Leviticus 23:14
in Leviticus 23You must not eat any bread or roasted or new grain until the very day you have brought this offering to your God. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched grain, nor fresh ears, until this selfsame day, until ye have brought the oblation of your God: it is a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
KJV
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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This verse in Leviticus 23
Commentary
5 notes on this verseAnd 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.
This site's exposition
On the day you wave the sheaf
on Leviticus 23:12-14
A lamb, fine flour mixed with oil and a quarter hin of wine go up with the sheaf, so the first grain never comes alone. Verse 14 forbids bread, roasted grain and new grain until the offering has been brought.
This site's exposition
until the very day you have brought
John Gill notes that the feast week's unleavened bread could not be baked from the new grain until the sheaf was offered. Adam Clarke reports the Arabs of the Holy Land still eating parched and green ears, fried, in his day. The ban covered the commonest food of the field.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings. 20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the L ORD , with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the L ORD for the priest.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
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, etc., dedicated to him. Concerning the dedication of the first-fruits, see the note on Exo 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.
How the passage was read
On Leviticus 23:1-44On Leviticus 23:1-44
The year Israel keeps
This chapter is the calendar of the whole Jewish year, and every feast in it is still on the calendar today. In order: the weekly Sabbath; Passover and Unleavened Bread in spring (now kept as the seder meal and a week without leavened bread); Firstfruits (the first sheaf of barley waved before God); Weeks, in Hebrew Shavuot, fifty days later (Christians know the Greek name: Pentecost); then in autumn the Day of Trumpets (now Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, announced by the ram's-horn trumpet called a shofar), the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur, the great fast), and Tabernacles, in Hebrew Sukkot, when families still build and eat in leafy backyard booths for a week, remembering the wilderness.
So when the New Testament says Jesus or Paul went up for “the feast,” it means one of these appointments: the same calendar, kept for over three thousand years.
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
ומנחתו AND THE MEAL OFFERING THEREOF — i. e. the usual meal-offering that was brought together with its drink-offering,
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
AND YE SHALL COUNT ‘LACHEM’ (UNTO YOU). The meaning thereof is similar to the expression And ye shall take ‘lachem,’ 264 Further, Verse. thus establishing that the counting [of the forty-nine days of the omer ] and the taking [of the lulav, ethrog etc.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Sources: The Feasts of the LORD (this site's study of all seven) · Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 1:1 (the four new years)
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
19 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְלֶחֶם֩ | velechem | and bread | H3899 → | 298 times |
| וְקָלִ֨י | vekali | and roasted grain | H7039 → | |
| וְכַרְמֶ֜ל | vekharmel | and new corn | H3759 → | |
| לֹ֣א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תֹֽאכְל֗וּ | tokhelu | you will eat | H398 → | 810 times |
| עַד־ | ʾad- | until | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| עֶ֙צֶם֙ | ʾetzem | [the] substance of | H6106 → | 126 times |
| הַיּ֣וֹם | haiyom | the day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הַזֶּ֔ה | hazeh | <the> this | H2088 → | 1180 times |
| עַ֚ד | ʾad | until | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| הֲבִ֣יאֲכֶ֔ם | haviakhem | bring you | H935 → | 2568 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| קָרְבַּ֖ן | karban | [the] present of | H7133 → | 82 times |
| אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֑ם | ʾeloheikhem | God your | H430 → | 2601 times |
| חֻקַּ֤ת | chukat | a statute of | H2708 → | 104 times |
| עוֹלָם֙ | olam | perpetuity | H5769 → | 438 times |
| לְדֹרֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם | ledoroteikhem | to generations your | H1755 → | 167 times |
| בְּכֹ֖ל | bekhol | in all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| מֹשְׁבֹֽתֵיכֶֽם׃ ס | moshevoteikhem | dwelling places your | H4186 → | 44 times |
וְלֶחֶם֩and bread
velechemH3899 →298 times
וְקָלִ֨יand roasted grain
vekaliH7039 →
וְכַרְמֶ֜לand new corn
vekharmelH3759 →
לֹ֣אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
תֹֽאכְל֗וּyou will eat
tokheluH398 →810 times
עַד־until
ʾad-H5704 →1261 times
עֶ֙צֶם֙[the] substance of
ʾetzemH6106 →126 times
הַיּ֣וֹםthe day
haiyomH3117 →2304 times
הַזֶּ֔ה<the> this
hazehH2088 →1180 times
עַ֚דuntil
ʾadH5704 →1261 times
הֲבִ֣יאֲכֶ֔םbring you
haviakhemH935 →2568 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
קָרְבַּ֖ן[the] present of
karbanH7133 →82 times
אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֑םGod your
ʾeloheikhemH430 →2601 times
חֻקַּ֤תa statute of
chukatH2708 →104 times
עוֹלָם֙perpetuity
olamH5769 →438 times
לְדֹרֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔םto generations your
ledoroteikhemH1755 →167 times
בְּכֹ֖לin all
bekholH3605 →5413 times
מֹשְׁבֹֽתֵיכֶֽם׃ סdwelling places your
moshevoteikhemH4186 →44 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Leviticus 3:17This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.”
it leads to
- Genesis 9:4
But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.
- Matthew 26:28
This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
- Deuteronomy 15:23
But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
- Deuteronomy 12:23
Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
- Leviticus 7:23
“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘You are not to eat any of the fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat.
- Genesis 9:4
Through
Exodus 34:26Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
it leads to
- Exodus 23:19
Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
- Exodus 23:19
Through
Leviticus 10:11so that you may teach the Israelites all the statutes that the LORD has given them through Moses.”
it leads to
- Matthew 28:20
and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
- Malachi 2:7
For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts.
- Matthew 28:20
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.