Joshua 5:11

11 The day after the Passover, that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain.

Joshua 5:11 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
11 And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.
English Standard Version (ESV)
11 And the day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain.
New Living Translation (NLT)
11 The very next day they began to eat unleavened bread and roasted grain harvested from the land.
The Message Bible (MSG)
11 Right away, the day after the Passover, they started eating the produce of that country, unraised bread and roasted grain.
American Standard Version (ASV)
11 And they did eat of the produce of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes and parched grain, in the selfsame day.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
11 On the day after the Passover, they ate some of the produce of the land, unleavened bread and roasted grain.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
11 The day after Passover they ate unleavened bread and roasted grain from the produce of the land.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
11 The day after the Passover, they ate some of the food that was grown in the land. On that very day they ate grain that had been cooked. They also ate bread that was made without yeast.

Joshua 5:11 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 5:11

And they did eat the old corn of the land
That of the last year, as some versions F7, which agree with ours; in which they seem to follow the Jewish writers, who, as particularly Kimchi, Gersom, and Ben Melech, interpret it of the old corn, for this reason, because they might not eat of the new until the wave sheaf was offered up, ( Leviticus 23:10 Leviticus 23:11 Leviticus 23:14 ) ; of which old corn they suppose the unleavened cakes were made, and was also parched corn, though that word the Septuagint version translates "new"; and indeed were it not for the above law, there does not seem to be any reason for rendering it old corn, only corn of the land, as the Septuagint does; and there is some difficulty how they should get at the old corn, which it may be supposed was laid up in the granaries, when Jericho was close shut up, and none went in or out; unless they met with it in some of the villages near at hand, or it was brought them by the traders in corn, of whom they bought it, or found it in some houses and barns without the city:

on the morrow after the passover;
which Kimchi and Ben Gersom say was on the fifteenth of Nisan, the passover being on the fourteenth; but if the morrow after the passover is the same with the morrow after the Sabbath, ( Leviticus 23:11 ) ; that was the sixteenth of Nisan; and so Jarchi here says, this is the day of waving the sheaf, which was always done on the sixteenth: it is difficult to say which day is meant; if it was the sixteenth, then it may refer to what they ate on that day, after the sheaf was offered F8; if it was the fifteenth, it seems necessary to understand it of the old corn; and such they must have to make their unleavened cakes of, both for the passover on the fourteenth, and the Chagigah, or feast of unleavened bread, which began the fifteenth, as it follows:

unleavened bread, and parched [corn] in the selfsame day;
unleavened bread, for the uses before mentioned, they were obliged to, and parched corn for their pleasure; but new corn, as the Septuagint render it, was expressly forbidden before the waving of the sheaf, ( Leviticus 23:14 ) ; and therefore old corn seems to be meant; this was just forty years to a day from their coming out of Egypt.


FOOTNOTES:

F7 (rwbem) "de frumento praeteriti anni", Montanus; sic, Munster, Tigurine version, Vatablus.
F8 So in Seder Olam Rabba, c. 11. p. 31.

Joshua 5:11 In-Context

9 Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” So the place has been called Gilgal to this day.
10 On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, the Israelites celebrated the Passover.
11 The day after the Passover, that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain.
12 The manna stopped the day after they ate this food from the land; there was no longer any manna for the Israelites, but that year they ate the produce of Canaan.
13 Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?”

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