You shall eat the old harvest, and clear out the old because of the new.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.
- KJV And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
- BSB You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.
- NASB And you will eat the old supply, and clear out the old because of the new.
- NLT You will have such a surplus of crops that you will need to clear out the old grain to make room for the new harvest!
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Quick answer
Harvests would be so great that old stores must be cleared out to make room for the new. God's provision overflows beyond need.
Overview
Surplus so large that last year's grain must be moved out for the new crop vividly pictures God's lavish generosity. Far from scarcity, the obedient enjoy more than they can store. This abundance foreshadows the overflowing grace of the gospel, in which God supplies His people exceedingly beyond what they ask or imagine.
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Cross-references · 4
- Lev 25:22You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.
- 2 Kgs 19:29“This will be the sign to you: This year, you will eat that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat its fruit.
- Luke 12:17He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’
- Josh 5:11They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, in the same day.
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