What Does Leviticus 26:10 Mean?
And you shall eat old store, and bring the old out from before the new.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.THE KEY
The new arrives so abundantly that it brings the old into use instead of making it worthless.
THE MEANING
What has been kept still has a place when fresh provision arrives. The old is brought forward and used because the new is here; the storehouse turns over before it is empty.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that the old becomes worthless as soon as something new arrives dissolves here: the old is brought out precisely because the new is here.
THE ROOT
חָדָשׁ
chadash
GROWS FROM
ח־ד־ש
ḥ-d-sh
New; renew, make new.
The root carries both “new” and “renew”: newness can be a recurring restoration, not only an arrival that replaces what was there. Here, fresh provision makes room for the old to be used too.
ALSO GROWS
chodesh: Month; new moon.
חֹדֶשׁ
The month takes its name from the recurring appearance of the new moon, giving newness a cyclical sense.
chiddesh: Renewed, made new.
חִדֵּשׁ
This branch makes renewal part of the same word-family as newness.
יָשָׁן נוֹשָׁן
yashan noshan
GROWS FROM
י־ש־נ
y-sh-n
Sleep; be old or aged.
“old store” in this verse is yashan noshan. The Hebrew stacks words for old and aged, giving the storehouse a sense of long-kept reserve. The root also includes sleep; here, what has rested in storage remains food rather than becoming waste.
ALSO GROWS
yashen: Sleeping; asleep.
יָשֵׁן
This form shares the root’s sense of lying at rest through time.
yashan: Old; aged.
יָשָׁן
This is the word-family used for the old store that remains available when fresh provision arrives.
THE PATTERN
Renewal makes room for what came before to be brought forward alongside what is arriving.
Then he said to them, So every scribe who has been made a learner for the governance of the heavens is like a man who is master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.They are new every morning; great is your steadiness.THE THREAD
They are new every morning; great is your steadiness.The word “new” in both verses comes from ח־ד־ש (ḥ-d-sh), the root of making new and renewing. In Leviticus, new provision makes the stored old available to come forward; here, renewal returns every morning.
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