Leviticus 23:14

Lev 23:14 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.

Ver. 14. And ye shall eat neither bread.] It was fit that God the giver should have the first.

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Lev 23:14. Ye shall eat neither bread nor corn — Of this year’s growth. This was a most reasonable testimony of their respect for God, to give him the first place, and pay their tribute of gratitude to the donor before they used his gifts. They who lived at a distance from the tabernacle, or temple, were allowed to eat new corn on this day after mid-day, because the offering to God was always presented before that time.

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23:14 Israelites could not eat food from the harvest on that day until they acknowledged God’s provision by presenting him with the appropriate offering.

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Or, full ears.

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Verse 14. Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears] It is right that God, the dispenser of every blessing, should be acknowledged as such, and the first-fruits of the field, &c., dedicated to him. Concerning the dedication of the first-fruits, See Clarke on Ex 22:29. Parched ears of corn and green ears, fried, still constitute a part, and not a disagreeable one, of the food of the Arabs now resident in the Holy Land. See Hasselquist.

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(14) And ye shall eat neither bread.—In acknowledgment of the bountiful Giver of the new harvest, it was ordained that the Israelites were not to taste any of it till they had dedicated the first- fruit to the Lord. By bread is meant the unleavened bread which they were now enjoined to eat. The unleavened bread for the first and the second days of Passover was prepared from the last year’s harvest, but the bread for the following days could only be made from the new harvest after the normal dedication of it to the Lord.

Parched corn.—See Lev_2:14.

Green ears.—The expression carmel, which the Authorised version renders “full ears” in Lev. 214, the authorities during the second Temple took to denote the five kinds of the new grain, viz., wheat, rye, oats, and two kinds of barley, which were forbidden to be used in any form whatsoever prior to this public dedication of the harvest to the Lord. The same custom of dedicating the first-fruits of the harvest to the divine beings also obtained amongst the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and other nations of antiquity.

A statute for ever . . . —See Lev_3:17; Lev_7:23-25.

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14. For ‘parched corn’ and ‘fresh ears,’ see on Lev_2:14-16.

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And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears,.... That is, they were not allowed to make bread of the new corn, as Aben Ezra and Gersom explain it; for they were obliged to eat unleavened bread at this time: but it might not be made of the new corn, until the above offering was made; nay, they were not allowed to parch any of the grains of corn, and eat them; yea, even they might not pluck and eat the green ears, though of ever so small a quantity. The Jews say (q), if it was the quantity of an olive of either of these, a man was to be beaten for it:

until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God; which includes all the offerings on this account, the offering of the firstfruits, the offering of the he lamb, and the meat offering and the drink offering; until these were offered up, the new corn might not be eaten in any form:

it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations; until the Messiah came, who is the substance of these shadows:

in all your dwellings; not at Jerusalem only, but in the several parts of the land of Canaan; yea, as Ben Gersom says, whether in the land, or without the land; a later writer says, it is forbidden to eat of the new corn at this time, whether bread, parched corn, or green ears, until the beginning of the night of the eighteenth of Nisan, and in the land of Israel, until the beginning of the night of the seventeenth of Nisan (r).

(q) Maimon. Hilchot Maacolot Asurot, c. 10. sect. 2, 3. (r) Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. c. 489. sect. 10. so Lebush, c. 489. sect. 10.

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Corn (polentam). Some translate bruised corn, or a sort of cake. See chap. ii. 4. --- Dwellings, even out of the holy land, which was peculiar to this law. (Grotius)

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Bread, made of new wheat, as the nature and reason of the law showeth.

Nor green ears, which were usual, not only for offerings to God, as Lev 2:14, but also for man’s food. See Jos 5:11; Rth 2:14; 1Sa 17:17; Mat 12:1.

Until the selfsame day: good reason God should be first served and owned as the supreme Landlord.

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14. Parched corn… green ears — These, being fried, are still eaten with relish by the Arabs now dwelling in Palestine. See note on Rth_2:14. Abstinence from the fruits of the earth till thanks have been rendered to the bountiful Giver in the form of an offering of firstfruits was a practice quite prevalent among the pagan nations. Pliny says of the ancient Romans, “They did not so much as taste of their corn and wine till the priests had offered the firstfruits.” A statute for ever. See note on Lev_3:17.

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Bread - Made of new wheat. Nor green ears - Which were usual, not only for offerings to God, but also for man's food.

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וקלי means flour made out of tender ears (כרמל); this is called קלוי because they dry them in the oven and so become scorched.

וכרמל — these are ears themselves which are called grenailles in old French (Menachot 66a, b).

בכל משבתיכם IN ALL YOUR HABITATIONS — The Sages differ in their opinions regarding this (the meaning of these words). Some learn from here (taking the words בכל משבתיכם in the sense "wherever you may live") that the law concerning the new crop applies also outside the Land of Israel; others, hold that it (the phrase) denotes “in all your settlements” and is only intended to teach that they did not become subject to the command concerning the new crop until after the land had become their inheritance and place of settlement (ישיבה) i. e. after they had subjugated the land and had parcelled it out amongst the tribes (Kiddushin 37a).

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