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.
Parallel translations
- WEB 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.
- 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.
- NKJV You shall eat neither bread nor parched grain nor fresh grain until the same day that you have brought an offering to your God; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
- NASB Until this very day, until you have brought in the offering of your God, you shall eat neither bread nor roasted grain nor new produce. It is to be a permanent statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.
- NLT Do not eat any bread or roasted grain or fresh kernels on that day until you bring this offering to your God. This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed from generation to generation wherever you live.
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Quick answer
Israel must not eat any of the new harvest until this firstfruits offering is brought, a lasting statute.
Overview
God received the first portion before the people enjoyed any of the crop, teaching that He has the first claim on His gifts. Waiting to eat trained Israel in grateful dependence on the Lord. The principle of giving God the first and best endures, calling believers to honor Him before themselves (Proverbs 3:9).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Exod 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.”
- Gen 4:4–5while Abel brought the best portions of the firstborn of his flock. And the LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,
- Neh 9:14You revealed to them Your holy Sabbath and gave them commandments and statutes and laws through Your servant Moses.
- Lev 3:17This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.”
- Lev 10:11so that you may teach the Israelites all the statutes that the LORD has given them through Moses.”
- Lev 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.
- Lev 19:23–25When 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.
- Josh 5:11–12The day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate unleavened bread and roasted grain from the produce of the land.
- Num 15:20–21From 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.
- Deut 16:12Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and carefully follow these statutes.
- Ps 19:8The precepts of the LORD are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes.
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Every sacrifice, every priest, and every day of atonement points beyond itself to the one perfect offering and the great High Priest who, by his own blood, makes the unclean holy once for all.
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