Leviticus 23:14

And you may take no bread or dry grain or new grain for food till the very day on which you have given the offering for your God: this is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

13And let the meal offering with it be two tenth parts of an ephah of the best meal mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the Lord for a sweet smell; and the drink offering with it is to be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.

15And let seven full weeks be numbered from the day after the Sabbath, the day when you give the grain for the wave offering;

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Cross References

Genesis 4:4And Abel gave an offering of the young lambs of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord was pleased with Abel's offering;

Exodus 34:26Take the first-fruits of your land as an offering to the house of the Lord your God. Let not the young goat be cooked in its mother's milk

Leviticus 10:11Teaching the children of Israel all the laws which the Lord has given them by the hand of Moses.

Leviticus 19:25But in the fifth year you may take the fruit and the increase of it for your food: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 23:41And let this feast be kept before the Lord for seven days in the year: it is a rule for ever from generation to generation; in the seventh month let it be kept.

Numbers 15:20Of the first of your rough meal you are to give a cake for a lifted offering, lifting it up before the Lord as the offering of the grain-floor is lifted up.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 23:5-15

4 These are the feasts of the Lord , even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. 5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord 's passover. 6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord : seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. 7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. 8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation:… Read the whole commentary →

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