Joshua 5:11

"The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho."

Key Reflection

Encamping in Gilgal symbolizes a new beginning for the Israelites, marking their transition from wandering to settled life under God's guidance. Keeping the Passover in the plains of Jericho highlights both their remembrance of deliverance and their readiness to face future challenges with renewed faith and identity.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Old corn of the land -Rather “produce of the land,” the new grain just coming in at the time of the Passover. (So inJoshua 5:12.) On the morrow after the passover -These words denote inNumbers 33:3the 15th Nisan, but must here apparently mean the 16th. For the Israelites could not lawfully eat of the new grain until the first fruits of it had been presented, and this was done on “the morrow after the Sabbath,” i. e. the morrow after the first day of Unleavened Bread, which was to be observed as a Sabbath, and is therefore so called.

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