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The day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate unleavened bread and roasted grain from the produce of the land.
Joshua 5:11 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, in the same day.
  • KJV And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.
  • NKJV And they ate of the produce of the land on the day after the Passover, unleavened bread and parched grain, on the very same day.
  • NASB Then on the day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and roasted grain.
  • NLT The very next day they began to eat unleavened bread and roasted grain harvested from the land.

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Quick answer

The day after Passover, Israel ate unleavened cakes and roasted grain from the land's produce. For the first time they fed on the fruit of the Promised Land.

Overview

Eating the land's produce signaled that God's promise was now becoming tangible reality. The wilderness diet of manna was giving way to the harvest of Canaan. This transition marks God's faithfulness in bringing His people from provision in the desert to abundance in the land.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 4

  • Lev 23:14You 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.
  • Exod 13:6–7For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.
  • Exod 12:18–20In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.
  • Lev 23:6On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.

Themes, concepts, people & topics

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Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Joshua videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — verse-by-verseDavid Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryClassic commentaries for this verseBibleHub (20+ works) · Pastoral · Free

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  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on JoshuaMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

Joshua — the same name as Jesus, 'the LORD saves' — leads God's people into their inheritance, a shadow of the greater Joshua who brings us into the true rest and the promised land that remains.

How Joshua 5:11 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Original language

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