Nisan 15 – They ate the produce of the Land…

Nisan 15, 5785; from sunset April 12, 2025, to sunset April 13, 2025

(The fifteenth day of the first month)

This is the name Yehoshua (Joshua); Joshua means “The LORD Saves.” The top image was written ~2,000 years ago and was found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. The bottom image was written ~1,000 years ago and is from the Aleppo Codex (the Crown of Aleppo). The top image was written on a scroll, possibly in Qumran, near the Dead Sea. The bottom is in a bound manuscript, written in Tiberias, near the Sea of Galilee, which later made its way to Aleppo (Syria). The Aleppo Codex is now housed in the Shrine of the Book alongside the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Today in the Bible, we’re catching up with Joshua and the children of Israel. Just a few days ago, they entered into the Promised Land for the very first time. After that momentous occasion, they brought themselves under the covenant through circumcision. Yesterday, they kept the Passover. And now, today, they are reaping a harvest which they did not plant and eating some of the produce of the Land for the very first time.

They Ate the Produce of the Land

On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, the Israelites celebrated the Passover. The day after the Passover, that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain. – Joshua 5:10-11 (NIB)

To read all of our posts about Joshua, please click on the image above.