Leviticus 23:14

Translations

Modern

You 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.

Traditional

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.

Literal

And you shall not eat bread, nor parched grain, nor fresh grain, until this same day that you have brought an offering to your God; it shall be an everlasting statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Latin

Panem, et polentam, et pultes non comedetis ex segete, usque ad diem qua offeretis ex ea Deo vestro. Præceptum est sempiternum in generationibus, cunctisque habitaculis vestris.

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English

You 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.

Notes

Leviticus 23:14

The Israelites could not eat from the harvest that day until they acknowledged God's gift by making the appropriate offering.

Leviticus 23:10–14

The burned part of each sacrifice stood for the whole offering, and the tithe symbolized that all of a person's money belonged to God. In a similar way, the first portions of each harvest, or firstfruits, represented the entire harvest and even the land itself as belonging to God (Leviticus 25:23).

During the barley harvest, people offered the first portions as part of the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Leviticus 23:6, 10–12). They offered the first portions of the wheat harvest during "the Feast of Weeks" (23:15–21; Exodus 34:22). These gifts to God acknowledged God's earlier gifts to Israel (see Leviticus 2:1). The entire offering of firstfruits became the property and food of God's representatives, the priests (see 2:14–16).

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Ancient Law Codes

Related verses

Exodus 34:26
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.”
Genesis 4:4–5
…while Abel brought the best portions of the firstborn of his flock. And the LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,
Deuteronomy 16:12
Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and carefully follow these statutes.
Leviticus 19:23–25
When you enter the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you shall regard the fruit as forbidden. For three years it will be forbidden to you and must not be eaten.
Numbers 15:20–21
From the first of your dough, you are to lift up a cake as a contribution; offer it just like an offering from the threshing floor.
Leviticus 3:17
This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.”
Nehemiah 9:14
You revealed to them Your holy Sabbath and gave them commandments and statutes and laws through Your servant Moses.
Leviticus 25:2–3
“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the LORD.
Joshua 5:11–12
The day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate unleavened bread and roasted grain from the produce of the land.
Leviticus 10:11
…so that you may teach the Israelites all the statutes that the LORD has given them through Moses.”
Psalm 19:8
The precepts of the LORD are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes.

Glossary

Biblical Concept of Law Deuteronomy, Book of Firstfruits History of Israel Leviticus, Book of Pentecost

Topics

First Fruits: Wave offering of Thankfulness: Enjoined The Feast of the Passover: The First Sheaf of Barley Harvest offered the Day After The The First Fruits: Different Kinds of Barley Harvest The Harvest: Not to be Commenced Until the First Fruits had been offered

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