Leviticuschapter 2

16 verses · ASV

This chapter sends 138 cross-references outward and receives 121 — heaviest partner: Leviticus.

Chapter summary

The meat (grain) offering. Fine flour mixed with oil, frankincense upon it; or a meat offering baked in the oven, in the pan, or in the frying pan — each of fine flour and oil, unleavened. No leaven and no honey burned on the altar; every meat offering seasoned with salt — ‘the salt of the covenant of thy God’. The priest takes a handful as a memorial portion and burns it; the rest is for Aaron and his sons — most holy. The chapter introduces the grain-offering vocabulary that the New Testament reaches for when it speaks of a pure and unmixed life offered up to God.

Drafted from Matthew Henry, Calvin, Gill, Clarke, JFB, and Barnes.

Context

Law · Moses — see the Leviticus overview for the book's full setting.

1 And when any one offereth an oblation of a meal-offering unto Jehovah, his oblation shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon:

2 and he shall bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests; and he shall take thereout his handful of the fine flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof. And the priest shall burn it as the memorial thereof upon the altar, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah:

3 and that which is left of the meal-offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’: it is a thing most holy of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire.

4 And when thou offerest an oblation of a meal-offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.

5 And if thy oblation be a meal-offering of the baking-pan, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.

6 Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it is a meal-offering.

7 And if thy oblation be a meal-offering of the frying-pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.

8 And thou shalt bring the meal-offering that is made of these things unto Jehovah: and it shall be presented unto the priest, and he shall bring it unto the altar.

9 And the priest shall take up from the meal-offering the memorial thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.