Leviticus 26:10
in Leviticus 26You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And ye shall eat old store long kept, and ye shall bring forth the old because of the new.
KJV
And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
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This verse in Leviticus 26
Commentary
6 notes on this verseFor just as the teachings of the new and old Testaments should come together, as it is written: "Consume the old things of the ancients, and remove the old things from the face of the new ones." Let the knowledge of the patriarchs be food for us, let the soul feast on the oracles of the prophets: let the inner being be nourished by such sustenance. But now let it not be the appearance of a lamb, but rather the reality of the body of Christ.
This site's exposition
For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful
on Leviticus 26:9-10
Fruitful and multiply are the words spoken over creation at Genesis 1:28 and over Noah at Genesis 9:1, and here they land on a nation. Establish my covenant is the language of Genesis 17:7, so the promise attached to obedience is the promise already made to Abraham. Verse 10 measures the blessing by a storage problem, old grain still in hand when the new crop arrives and needing to be carried out to make room.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
A commentator
Origen of AlexandriaCOMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW 10.15 · Written before 253.
proposed
For we eat with blessing the old things, the prophetic words and the old things of the old things, the words of the law. And, when the new and evangelical words came, living according to the gospel, we bring forth the old things of the letter from before the new. He sets his tabernacle in us, fulfilling the promise which he spoke, "I will dwell among them and walk in them."
The Medieval Church1 voice
And we eat the oldest of the old [grain] when we retain in our hearts the sweet memory of the old commandment which was given to the human race from the beginning, by loving the Lord our God with all our heart, all our soul …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Bring forth - Or, cast out, throw them away as having no occasion to spend them, or give them to the poor, or even to your cattle, that you may make way for the new corn, which also is so plentiful, that of itself it will fill up your barns.
And ye shall eat old store,....
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
“This means the Sanctuary [at Jerusalem].” AND MY SOUL SHALL NOT ‘THIG’AL’ (ABHOR) YOU. “This means that My spirit shall not reject you.
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.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 6 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
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַאֲכַלְתֶּ֥ם | vaakhaltem | and you will eat | H398 → | 810 times |
| יָשָׁ֖ן | yashan | old harvest | H3465 → | 7 times |
| נוֹשָׁ֑ן | noshan | growing old | H3462 → | |
| וְיָשָׁ֕ן | veyashan | and old harvest | H3465 → | 7 times |
| מִפְּנֵ֥י | mipenei | from before | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| חָדָ֖שׁ | chadash | [the] new [harvest] | H2319 → | |
| תּוֹצִֽיאוּ׃ | totziu | you will bring out | H3318 → | 1067 times |
וַאֲכַלְתֶּ֥םand you will eat
vaakhaltemH398 →810 times
יָשָׁ֖ןold harvest
yashanH3465 →7 times
נוֹשָׁ֑ןgrowing old
noshanH3462 →
וְיָשָׁ֕ןand old harvest
veyashanH3465 →7 times
מִפְּנֵ֥יfrom before
mipeneiH6440 →2123 times
חָדָ֖שׁ[the] new [harvest]
chadashH2319 →
תּוֹצִֽיאוּ׃you will bring out
totziuH3318 →1067 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
2 Kings 19:29And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third…
it leads to
- Isaiah 37:30
And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Leviticus 25:20–22
Now you may wonder, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our produce?’
- 2 Kings 20:8–9
Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?”
- Exodus 3:12
“I will surely be with you,” God said, “and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, all of you will…
- Isaiah 37:30
Through
Luke 12:17So he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, since I have nowhere to store my crops?’
it leads to
- Matthew 5:42
Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
- Isaiah 58:7
Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own…
- Romans 12:13
Share with the saints who are in need. Practice hospitality.
- 2 Corinthians 9:6–15
Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
- Matthew 5:42
Where this verse is studied
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About Leviticus
This page draws on Ambrose of Milan, On Cain and Abel 2.6.19; Bede, On the Tabernacle 1.9; John Calvin, Commentary on the Four Last Books of Moses Arranged in the Form of a Harmony; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Origen of Alexandria, COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW 10.15.