Leviticus · 16 verses
Leviticus 2
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A grain offering is divided with almost comical precision: a memorial handful, all the frankincense, and the rest for Aaron’s sons; even the salt is a matter of covenant.
Flour, oil, and the priest’s handfulvv. 1–10
The offering begins as fine flour with olive oil and frankincense, brought to Aaron’s sons the priests. A priest takes a handful of flour and oil, burns it with all the frankincense, and the remainder belongs to Aaron and his sons. Whether baked in an oven, prepared on a griddle, or cooked in a pan, the arrangement remains pleasingly exact: the memorial portion goes to the altar, and the rest becomes most holy food for the priests.
No leaven, no honey, but salt without failvv. 11–13
Leaven and honey are refused from the altar, though they may still be brought as firstfruits, a distinction the chapter leaves standing without explanation. Salt, by contrast, is required in every grain offering and receives the grand title “the salt of the covenant of your God.” The pantry has acquired a small theology of its own.
The firstfruits of new grainvv. 14–16
The firstfruits offering is made from crushed heads of new grain roasted on the fire, with oil and frankincense added. The priest burns its memorial portion with all the frankincense, and the chapter closes with the familiar little portion ascending to the LORD.
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Lev 2:1“When anyone brings a grain offering to the LORD, his offering must consist of fine flour. He is to pour olive oil on it, put frankincense on it,
Lev 2:2and bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests. The priest shall take a handful of the flour and oil, together with all the frankincense, and burn this as a memorial portion on the altar, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Lev 2:3The remainder of the grain offering shall belong to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the food offerings to the LORD.
Lev 2:4Now if you bring an offering of grain baked in an oven, it must consist of fine flour, either unleavened cakes mixed with oil or unleavened wafers coated with oil.
Lev 2:5If your offering is a grain offering prepared on a griddle, it must be unleavened bread made of fine flour mixed with oil.
Lev 2:6Crumble it and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering.
Lev 2:7If your offering is a grain offering cooked in a pan, it must consist of fine flour with oil.
Lev 2:8When you bring to the LORD the grain offering made in any of these ways, it is to be presented to the priest, and he shall take it to the altar.
Lev 2:9The priest is to remove the memorial portion from the grain offering and burn it on the altar as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Lev 2:10But the remainder of the grain offering shall belong to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the food offerings to the LORD.
Lev 2:11No grain offering that you present to the LORD may be made with leaven, for you are not to burn any leaven or honey as a food offering to the LORD.
Lev 2:12You may bring them to the LORD as an offering of firstfruits, but they must not go up on the altar as a pleasing aroma.
Lev 2:13And you shall season each of your grain offerings with salt. You must not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering; you are to add salt to each of your offerings.
Lev 2:14If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer crushed heads of new grain roasted on the fire.
Lev 2:15And you are to put oil and frankincense on it; it is a grain offering.
Lev 2:16The priest shall then burn the memorial portion of the crushed grain and the oil, together with all its frankincense, as a food offering to the LORD.’’
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- 13Ezekiel 43:24You must present them before the LORD; the priests are to sprinkle salt on them and sacrifice them as a burnt offering to the LORD.
- 13Matthew 5:13You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its savor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.
- 13Colossians 4:6Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
- 13Mark 9:49–50For everyone will be salted with fire.
- 132 Chronicles 13:5Do you not know that the LORD, the God of Israel, has given the kingship of Israel to David and his descendants forever by a covenant of salt?
- 13Numbers 18:19All the holy offerings that the Israelites present to the LORD I give to you and to your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. It is a permanent covenant of salt before the LORD for you and your offspring.”
- 4Exodus 29:2along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,
- 9Leviticus 2:2and bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests. The priest shall take a handful of the flour and oil, together with all the frankincense, and burn this as a memorial portion on the altar, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
- 1Leviticus 6:14–18Now this is the law of the grain offering: Aaron’s sons shall present it before the LORD in front of the altar.
- 2Leviticus 5:12He is to bring it to the priest, who shall take a handful from it as a memorial portion and burn it on the altar atop the food offerings to the LORD; it is a sin offering.
- 2Leviticus 6:15The priest is to remove a handful of fine flour and olive oil, together with all the frankincense from the grain offering, and burn the memorial portion on the altar as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
- 3Leviticus 10:12–13And Moses said to Aaron and his remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, “Take the grain offering that remains from the food offerings to the LORD and eat it without leaven beside the altar, because it is most holy.
- 2Acts 10:4Cornelius stared at him in fear and asked, “What is it, Lord?” The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have ascended as a memorial offering before God.
- 3Numbers 18:9A portion of the most holy offerings reserved from the fire will be yours. From all the offerings they render to Me as most holy offerings, whether grain offerings or sin offerings or guilt offerings, that part belongs to you and your sons.
- 3Leviticus 21:22He may eat the most holy food of his God as well as the holy food,
- 3Leviticus 6:16–17Aaron and his sons are to eat the remainder. It must be eaten without leaven in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.
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