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Leviticus 23:14 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 14. 14And 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.
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Quick Meaning
This verse delays eating the new crop until the offering is brought.
Read It With
- Leviticus 23:4-14
Read through 23:4-14 and watch how each actor, material, status, or command relates. Leviticus 23:14 delays eating the new crop until the offering is brought; the whole unit establishes this: Passover evening, seven unleavened days, holy assemblies, offerings, and the first sheaf with grain and drink precede eating the new crop.
Why This Verse Appears Here
This unit follows at this point to define passover, Unleavened Bread, and first sheaf order the opening harvest before the book turns to the next offering, priestly act, status distinction, social command, calendar movement, land case, covenant warning, or vow rule. Within that movement, this verse delays eating the new crop until the offering is brought.
Follow the Context
- The unit opens the case or movement named “Passover, Unleavened Bread, and first sheaf order the opening harvest.”
- Passover evening, seven unleavened days, holy assemblies, offerings, and the first sheaf with grain and drink precede eating the new crop.
- The festival belongs to Israel's exodus and land memory; Christian reception must not appropriate or erase Jewish Passover. That boundary keeps ritual status, moral guilt, ancient description, enduring truth, and modern application from being collapsed.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
Leviticus 23:14 does not stand apart from Leviticus 23:4-14; the festival belongs to Israel's exodus and land memory; Christian reception must not appropriate or erase Jewish Passover.
What Remains True
Delays eating the new crop until the offering is brought. Within Leviticus 23:4-14, this contributes to the larger claim that passover evening, seven unleavened days, holy assemblies, offerings, and the first sheaf with grain and drink precede eating the new crop.
How It Can Shape Life
- When teaching Leviticus 23:14, keep the verse inside Leviticus 23:4-14. Hold this boundary: The festival belongs to Israel's exodus and land memory; Christian reception must not appropriate or erase Jewish Passover. Apply only the noncoercive truth the complete unit supports.
Teach It Back
Explain Leviticus 23:14's contribution to Leviticus 23:4-14. Name the category involved, what the surrounding verses add, any material uncertainty, and what the verse does not authorize.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: Leviticus 23:4-14, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
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NET Bible: Leviticus with translators' notes
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Exact location: NET Bible Leviticus PDF, complete PDF pp. 1-99, translation and translator notes for 23:4-14
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