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Leviticus 2 Summary
Laws of the Grain Offering
Leviticus 2 sets out the regulations for the meat offering (grain offering), a voluntary tribute to the LORD made of fine flour with oil and frankincense. The chapter describes several permitted forms of preparation — unbaked, baked in an oven, cooked on a pan, or fried — each brought to the priest, who burns a representative "memorial" portion on the altar as a sweet savour to the LORD while the remainder belongs to Aaron and his sons as most holy. The chapter strictly forbids the inclusion of leaven or honey in any fire offering, mandates that salt must accompany every oblation as the "salt of the covenant," and addresses a special firstfruits variant made of dried green ears of corn with oil and frankincense, of which the priest likewise burns a memorial portion.
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Leviticus 2:2
“And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD:”
Leviticus 2:11
“No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.”
Leviticus 2:13
“And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.”
Leviticus 2:14
“And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears.”
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