a5:10
bNum 9:1-5
c5:11-12
dExod 16:31
eNum 11:9
f5:11
gLev 23:6
hRuth 2:14
i5:12

‏ Joshua 5:10-12

5:10  a The Passover lamb was slain on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month. Just as the Passover in Egypt marked the exodus from slavery, the celebration of this Passover in Canaan marked the attainment of the goal God had been leading the Israelites toward. This Passover also anticipated God’s promised rest for his people in their new land.

• This was apparently the first Passover Israel had celebrated since they had been encamped at Sinai (Num 9:1-5  b). For the younger Israelites, it was their first Passover ever; for the older ones, their first since childhood. Celebrating the Passover after such a long lapse, particularly on the eve of the campaign to take the Promised Land, heightened both the joy and the solemnity of the occasion.
Summary for Josh 5:11-12: 5:11-12  c God’s daily provision of manna (Exod 16:31  d; Num 11:9  e) could cease because the produce from the land was now available. 5:11  f Israel reinstituted the Festival of Unleavened Bread, observed for seven days following Passover (Lev 23:6  g). The people ate unleavened bread and roasted grain, a favorite food of the harvest season (see Ruth 2:14  h).
5:12  i Israel harvested the crops that the people of Jericho did not have time to harvest before Israel crossed the Jordan.
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