Leviticus 2:12
You may give them as an offering of first-fruits to the Lord, but they are not to go up as a sweet smell on the altar.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 23:17So Ephron's field at Machpelah near Mamre, with the hollow in the rock and all the trees in the field and round it,
Exodus 23:10For six years put seed into your fields and get in the increase;
Leviticus 7:13With his peace-offering let him give cakes of leavened bread, as a praise-offering.
Numbers 15:20Of the first of your rough meal you are to give a cake for a lifted offering, lifting it up before the Lord as the offering of the grain-floor is lifted up.
Deuteronomy 26:10So now, I have come here with the first of the fruits of the earth which you, O Lord, have given me. Then you will put it down before the Lord your God and give him worship:
1 Corinthians 15:20But now Christ has truly come back from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are sleeping.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 2:12-16
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. 12 As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto the Lord : but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savour. 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… Read the whole commentary →