Verse 11
11. The old corn of the land There is no authority in the Hebrew for the word old. They ate of the produce of the land. The word old was inserted by our translators because it was unlawful to eat of the new grain before the sheaf was waved before Jehovah on the morrow of the Sabbath.
Leviticus 23:14-16. [But here is a difficulty. The morrow after the passover is used in Numbers 33:3, for the fifteenth of Nisan, the day after the evening on which the paschal lamb was eaten. But according to Leviticus 23:7, this day was to be celebrated by a holy convocation, and on it no servile work performed. How, then, shall we account for Israel’s eating the new fruit of the land on the morrow after the passover? The simplest explanation is that of Keil, who understands the word passover here, as in several other places, to mean not simply the paschal supper but the entire feast connected with it, which lasted seven days.
Parched corn Ears of grain baked at the fire, an article of food still much relished by the Arabs. See note on Ruth 2:14.]
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