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Early morning beside a black goat-hair tent: a small beehive-shaped clay oven glowing at its mouth, round flat unleavened cakes cooling on a linen cloth beside it, a small jar of olive oil.

The Book of

Leviticus 2

Not every gift to God was an animal. Some brought bread, made with their own hands.

16 verses≈ 3 minBSB

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Where we are

  1. 1–7The offeringsHow sinners draw nearChapter 2
  2. 8–10The priestsOrdained, and a warning
  3. 11–15Clean and uncleanLife before a holy God
  4. 16The Day of AtonementSins carried away
  5. 17–27A holy peopleBe holy, for I am holy

Laws for Grain Offerings

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On a low hearth of stones, a round unleavened cake cooking on a shallow clay griddle over glowing embers, a deep clay pan of flour and oil beside it, thin oil-brushed wafers on a cloth.

What to bring

Baked, fried or cooked

  1. Oven

    Cakes mixed with oil, or oiled wafers

    Now 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.

  2. Griddle

    Unleavened, crumbled, oil poured on

    If your offering is a grain offering prepared on a griddle, it must be unleavened bread made of fine flour mixed with oil. Crumble it and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering.

  3. Pan

    Fine flour with oil

    If your offering is a grain offering cooked in a pan, it must consist of fine flour with oil.

When 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. The 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. But 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.

Reflect

The work of your hands

A grain offering began long before it reached the altar. Someone sowed and reaped the wheat, ground it to “fine flour,” pressed the olives for oil and baked it at home, in an oven, on a griddle or in a pan. Then they gave it to God, and He called it “a pleasing aroma.” Your ordinary work can be offered to Him the same way. What will your hands make or do this week? Write it down, and write how you could give it to God. Then pray: Lord, take the work of my hands and make it Yours.

No 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. You may bring them to the LORD as an offering of firstfruits, but they must not go up on the altar as a pleasing aroma.

And 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.

Leviticus 2:13

Question

Quick question

Some things went into every grain offering, and some things never did.

What was never to be left out of a grain offering?

At dusk, fresh green-gold heads of barley roasting on a shallow clay griddle over a small brushwood fire, smoke and sparks rising into the dark.

If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer crushed heads of new grain roasted on the fire. And you are to put oil and frankincense on it; it is a grain offering. The 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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Narrated by Bob Souer · BSB audio, public domain

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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.

Leviticus 2:13

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