Leviticus chapter 2
Grain offerings.
GRAIN OFFERINGS
VERSE 1. “ ‘When anyone offers an offering of a meal offering to the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour. He shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it.
When. This verse does not command people to make offerings to the LORD. Rather, it assumes that they will be doing so.
anyone. Who is permitted to make an offering to the LORD? Anyone.
Nobody was forbidden. Neither gender nor popularity nor economic status could prohibit people from making an offering.
We Christians hold such a thing as an ideal. But we rarely live it out.
In practice, we exhibit great segregation. Women are kept from positions of power. Minorities are not welcome. Wealthy donate their way to positions of prominence.
Nonetheless, Paul admonishes us:
Galatians 3:28. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Perhaps in some day in the distant future, we Christians will finally attain to what the Jewish people were already practicing, millennia ago.
fine flour. Was the eating of bread mandatory for Jewish people? Or optional? The Bible seems to say it is mandatory. But what if they are gluten-intolerant? Read more »
VERSE 2. He shall bring it to Aaron’s sons, the priests. He shall take his handful of its fine flour, and of its oil, with all its frankincense, and the priest shall burn its memorial on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD.
handful. Only a handful of the grain offering is to be sacrificed.
burn its memorial on the altar. The handful of grain is burned on the altar.
VERSE 3. That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy part of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.
That which is left. After the handful of grain is burned on the altar, the remainder of the grain goes to the priests. It is their groceries.
VERSE 4. “ ‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
baked in the oven. They could offer grain that they baked into cakes. Or into unleavened wafers.
VERSE 5. If your offering is a meal offering made on a griddle, it shall be of unleavened fine flour, mixed with oil.
made on a griddle. They could offer grain that they fried on a griddle.
VERSE 6. You shall cut it in pieces, and pour oil on it. It is a meal offering.
VERSE 7. If your offering is a meal offering of the pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.
of the pan. They could offer grain that they cooked in a pan.
VERSE 8. You shall bring the meal offering that is made of these things to the LORD. It shall be presented to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar.
VERSE 9. The priest shall take from the meal offering its memorial, and shall burn it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD.
VERSE 10. That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy part of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.
That which is left. After the handful of grain is burned on the altar, the remainder of the grain goes to the priests. It is their groceries.
VERSE 11. “ ‘No meal offering which you shall offer to the LORD shall be made with yeast; for you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to the LORD.
No meal offering … shall be made with yeast. All the offerings were to be unleavened.
VERSE 12. As an offering of first fruits you shall offer them to the LORD, but they shall not rise up as a pleasant aroma on the altar.
VERSE 13. Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt. You shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.
God. The Hebrew word is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).
you shall season with salt. In ancient times, the spiritual offerings of God’s people were to be seasoned with salt. In our day, our conversations are to be seasoned with salt. Read more »
VERSE 14. “ ‘If you offer a meal offering of first fruits to the LORD, you shall offer for the meal offering of your first fruits fresh heads of grain parched with fire and crushed.
VERSE 15. You shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it. It is a meal offering.
VERSE 16. The priest shall burn as its memorial part of its crushed grain and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense. It is an offering made by fire to the LORD.
LEVITICUS
CHAPTERS: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27
RESOURCES: Summary, Outline, Memorize, The Scapegoat, Female Sacrificial Animals
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