Leviticus 2:14
“‘If you offer a meal offering of first fruits to Adonai, you shall offer for the meal offering of your first fruits grain in the ear parched with fire, bruised grain of the fresh ear.
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In Context
15You shall put oil on it, and lay frankincense on it: it is a meal offering.
Cross References
Genesis 4:3As time passed, Cain [Acquisition] brought an offering to Adonai from the fruit of the ground.
Leviticus 23:10+ 23:10. Lev 23:10 (Lev 23:9-14, 23:11, 23:15-16) (#4.297): T. To bring the First Fruits of your harvest, the Omer ·Sheath of grain· / R. To offer the wave offering from the grain of the new wheat T. Note: This is the First Fruits barley offering (#1 of the First Fruits offerings). Barley is considered the poor man’s grain, in contrast to wheat (think market value cost) “Speak to the children of Israel [God prevails], and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest:
Leviticus 23:14+ 23:14. Lev 23:14 (Lev 23:9-14) (#4.298): T. Not to eat bread of the new crop until you bring the First Fruits offering for your God / R. Not to eat bread from new grain before the Omer ·Sheath of grain· You must not eat bread, + 23:14. Lev 23:14 (Lev 23:9-14) (#4.299): T. Not to eat roasted grain of the new crop until you bring the First Fruits offering for your God / R. Not to eat parched grains from new grain before the Omer ·Sheath of grain· or roasted grain, + 23:14. Lev 23:14 (Lev 23:9-14) (#4.300): T. Not to eat fresh grain of the new crop until you bring the offering for your God / R. Not to eat ripened grains from new grain before the Omer ·Sheath of grain· or fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a regulation forever throughout all your generations in all your dwellings.
Numbers 28:2“Enjoin the children of Israel [God prevails], and tell them, ‘See that you present my offering, my food for my offerings made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to me, in their due season.’
Isaiah 53:2+ 53:2 a MP: Messiah will grow up in “dry ground,” an idiom for “a poor family”. Luke 2:7 identifies the poorest offering after childbirth being used (Lev 12:6-8). (See also Is 11:1b – Jesse’s tree was cut off at the trunk— not thriving family). (Consider illusion in Is 11:1). (Luke 2:7, 2:22, 2:24) For he grew up before him as a tender plant, 2 and as a root out of dry ground. 1 + 53:2 b MP: Messiah appears like an ordinary man. His betrayer identified Messiah in the garden by kissing him, because Messiah was not comely or handsome in appearance. (Matt 26:48-49; Phil 2:7) He has no good looks or majesty. 2 When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 1
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 →