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Selected Verse: Leviticus 2:12 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
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Le 2:12 |
Strong Concordance |
As for the oblation [07133] of the firstfruits [07225], ye shall offer [07126] them unto the LORD [03068]: but they shall not be burnt [05927] on the altar [04196] for a sweet [05207] savour [07381]. |
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King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
the oblation of the first-fruits--voluntary offerings made by individuals out of their increase, and leaven and honey might be used with these (Lev 23:17; Num 15:20). Though presented at the altar, they were not consumed, but assigned by God for the use of the priests. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
The presentation of the minchah "made of these things," i.e., of the different kinds of pastry mentioned in Lev 2:4-7, resembled in the main that described in Lev 2:1-3. The מן הרים in Lev 2:9 corresponds to the מן קמץ in Lev 2:2, and does not denote any special ceremony of heaving, as is supposed by the Rabbins and many archaeological writers, who understand by it a solemn movement up and down. This will be evident from a comparison of Lev 3:3 with Lev 4:8, Lev 4:31, Lev 4:35, and Lev 7:3. In the place of ממּנּוּ ירים in Lev 4:8 we find מזּבח הקריב in Lev 4:10, חלב חוּסר כּאשׁר חוּ in Lev 4:31 and Lev 4:35; so that מן הרים evidently denotes simply the lifting off or removal of those parts which were to be burned upon the altar from the rest of the sacrifice (cf. Bhr, ii. 357, and my Archologie i. p. 244-5). - In Lev 2:11-13 there follow two laws which were applicable to all the meat-offerings: viz., to offer nothing leavened (Lev 2:11), and to salt every meat-offering, and in fact every sacrifice, with salt (Lev 2:13). Every minchah was to be prepared without leaven: "for all leaven, and all honey, ye shall not burn a firing of it for Jehovah. As an offering of first-fruits ye may offer them (leaven and honey, i.e., pastry made with them) to Jehovah, but they shall not come upon the altar." Leaven and honey are mentioned together as things which produce fermentation. Honey has also an acidifying or fermenting quality, and was even used for the preparation of vinegar (Plin. h. n. 11, 15; 21, 14). In rabbinical writings, therefore, הדבישׁ signifies not only dulcedinem admittere, but corrumpsi, fermentari, fermentescere (vid., Buxtorf, lex. chald. talm. et rabb. p. 500). By "honey" we are to understand not grape-honey, the dibs of the Arabs, as Rashi and Bhr do, but the honey of bees; for, according to Ch2 31:5, this alone was offered as an offering of first-fruits along with corn, new wine, and oil; and in fact, as a rule, this was the only honey used by the ancients in sacrifice (see Bochart, Hieroz. iii. pp. 393ff.). The loaves of first-fruits at the feast of Weeks were leavened; but they were assigned to the priests, and not burned upon the altar (Lev 23:17, Lev 23:20). So also were the cakes offered with the vow-offerings, which were applied to the sacrificial meal (Lev 7:13); but not the shew-bread, as Knobel maintains (see at Lev 24:5.). Whilst leaven and honey were forbidden to be used with any kind of minchah, because of their producing fermentation and corruption, salt on the other hand was not to be omitted from any sacrificial offering. "Thou shalt not let the salt of the covenant of thy God cease from thy meat-offering," i.e., thou shalt never offer a meat-offering without salt. The meaning which the salt, with its power to strengthen food and preserve it from putrefaction and corruption, imparted to the sacrifice, was the unbending truthfulness of that self-surrender to the Lord embodied in the sacrifice, by which all impurity and hypocrisy were repelled. The salt of the sacrifice is called the salt of the covenant, because in common life salt was the symbol of covenant; treaties being concluded and rendered firm and inviolable, according to a well-known custom of the ancient Greeks (see Eustathius ad Iliad. i. 449) which is still retained among the Arabs, by the parties to an alliance eating bread and salt together, as a sign of the treaty which they had made. As a covenant of this kind was called a "covenant of salt," equivalent to an indissoluble covenant (Num 18:19; Ch2 13:5), so here the salt added to the sacrifice is designated as salt of the covenant of God, because of its imparting strength and purity to the sacrifice, by which Israel was strengthened and fortified in covenant fellowship with Jehovah. The following clause, "upon (with) every sacrificial gift of thine shalt thou offer salt," is not to be restricted to the meat-offering, as Knobel supposes, nor to be understood as meaning that the salt was only to be added to the sacrifice externally, to be offered with or beside it; in which case the strewing of salt upon the different portions of the sacrifice (Eze 43:24; Mar 9:49) would have been a departure from the ancient law. For korban without any further definition denotes the sacrificial offerings generally, the bleeding quite as much as the bloodless, and the closer definition of על הקריב (offer upon) is contained in the first clause of the verse, "season with salt." The words contain a supplementary rule which was applicable to every sacrifice (bleeding and bloodless), and was so understood from time immemorial by the Jews themselves (cf. Josephus, Ant. iii. 9, 1).
(Note: The Greeks and Romans also regarded salt as indispensable to a sacrifice. Maxime in sacris intelligitur auctoritas salis, quando nulla conficiuntur sine mola salsa. Plin. h. n. 31, 7, (cf. 41).) |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Ye may offer them - Or either of them, leaven or honey. They shall not be burnt - But reserved for the priests. |
20 Ye shall offer up [07311] a cake [02471] of the first [07225] of your dough [06182] for an heave offering [08641]: as ye do the heave offering [08641] of the threshingfloor [01637], so shall ye heave [07311] it.
17 Ye shall bring out [0935] of your habitations [04186] two [08147] wave [08573] loaves [03899] of two [08147] tenth deals [06241]: they shall be of fine flour [05560]; they shall be baken [0644] with leaven [02557]; they are the firstfruits [01061] unto the LORD [03068].
49 For [1063] every one [3956] shall be salted [233] with fire [4442], and [2532] every [3956] sacrifice [2378] shall be salted [233] with salt [251].
24 And thou shalt offer [07126] them before [06440] the LORD [03068], and the priests [03548] shall cast [07993] salt [04417] upon them, and they shall offer them up [05927] for a burnt offering [05930] unto the LORD [03068].
5 Ought ye not to know [03045] that the LORD [03068] God [0430] of Israel [03478] gave [05414] the kingdom [04467] over Israel [03478] to David [01732] for ever [05769], even to him and to his sons [01121] by a covenant [01285] of salt [04417]?
19 All the heave offerings [08641] of the holy things [06944], which the children [01121] of Israel [03478] offer [07311] unto the LORD [03068], have I given [05414] thee, and thy sons [01121] and thy daughters [01323] with thee, by a statute [02706] for ever [05769]: it is a covenant [01285] of salt [04417] for ever [05769] before [06440] the LORD [03068] unto thee and to thy seed [02233] with thee.
5 And thou shalt take [03947] fine flour [05560], and bake [0644] twelve [06240] cakes [02471] thereof: two [08147] tenth deals [06241] shall be in one [0259] cake [02471].
13 Besides the cakes [02471], he shall offer [07126] for his offering [07133] leavened [02557] bread [03899] with the sacrifice [02077] of thanksgiving [08426] of his peace offerings [08002].
20 And the priest [03548] shall wave [05130] them with the bread [03899] of the firstfruits [01061] for a wave offering [08573] before [06440] the LORD [03068], with the two [08147] lambs [03532]: they shall be holy [06944] to the LORD [03068] for the priest [03548].
17 Ye shall bring out [0935] of your habitations [04186] two [08147] wave [08573] loaves [03899] of two [08147] tenth deals [06241]: they shall be of fine flour [05560]; they shall be baken [0644] with leaven [02557]; they are the firstfruits [01061] unto the LORD [03068].
5 And as soon as the commandment [01697] came abroad [06555], the children [01121] of Israel [03478] brought [0935] in abundance [07235] the firstfruits [07225] of corn [01715], wine [08492], and oil [03323], and honey [01706], and of all the increase [08393] of the field [07704]; and the tithe [04643] of all things brought [0935] they in abundantly [07230].
13 And every oblation [07133] of thy meat offering [04503] shalt thou season [04414] with salt [04417]; neither shalt thou suffer the salt [04417] of the covenant [01285] of thy God [0430] to be lacking [07673] from thy meat offering [04503]: with all thine offerings [07133] thou shalt offer [07126] salt [04417].
11 No meat offering [04503], which ye shall bring [07126] unto the LORD [03068], shall be made [06213] with leaven [02557]: for ye shall burn [06999] no leaven [07603], nor any honey [01706], in any offering [0801] of the LORD [03068] made by fire [0801].
11 No meat offering [04503], which ye shall bring [07126] unto the LORD [03068], shall be made [06213] with leaven [02557]: for ye shall burn [06999] no leaven [07603], nor any honey [01706], in any offering [0801] of the LORD [03068] made by fire [0801].
12 As for the oblation [07133] of the firstfruits [07225], ye shall offer [07126] them unto the LORD [03068]: but they shall not be burnt [05927] on the altar [04196] for a sweet [05207] savour [07381].
13 And every oblation [07133] of thy meat offering [04503] shalt thou season [04414] with salt [04417]; neither shalt thou suffer the salt [04417] of the covenant [01285] of thy God [0430] to be lacking [07673] from thy meat offering [04503]: with all thine offerings [07133] thou shalt offer [07126] salt [04417].
35 And he shall take away [05493] all the fat [02459] thereof, as the fat [02459] of the lamb [03775] is taken away [05493] from the sacrifice [02077] of the peace offerings [08002]; and the priest [03548] shall burn [06999] them upon the altar [04196], according to the offerings made by fire [0801] unto the LORD [03068]: and the priest [03548] shall make an atonement [03722] for his sin [02403] that he hath committed [02398], and it shall be forgiven [05545] him.
31 And he shall take away [05493] all the fat [02459] thereof, as the fat [02459] is taken away [05493] from off the sacrifice [02077] of peace offerings [08002]; and the priest [03548] shall burn [06999] it upon the altar [04196] for a sweet [05207] savour [07381] unto the LORD [03068]; and the priest [03548] shall make an atonement [03722] for him, and it shall be forgiven [05545] him.
10 As it was taken off [07311] from the bullock [07794] of the sacrifice [02077] of peace offerings [08002]: and the priest [03548] shall burn [06999] them upon the altar [04196] of the burnt offering [05930].
8 And he shall take off [07311] from it all the fat [02459] of the bullock [06499] for the sin offering [02403]; the fat [02459] that covereth [03680] the inwards [07130], and all the fat [02459] that is upon the inwards [07130],
3 And he shall offer [07126] of it all the fat [02459] thereof; the rump [0451], and the fat [02459] that covereth [03680] the inwards [07130],
35 And he shall take away [05493] all the fat [02459] thereof, as the fat [02459] of the lamb [03775] is taken away [05493] from the sacrifice [02077] of the peace offerings [08002]; and the priest [03548] shall burn [06999] them upon the altar [04196], according to the offerings made by fire [0801] unto the LORD [03068]: and the priest [03548] shall make an atonement [03722] for his sin [02403] that he hath committed [02398], and it shall be forgiven [05545] him.
31 And he shall take away [05493] all the fat [02459] thereof, as the fat [02459] is taken away [05493] from off the sacrifice [02077] of peace offerings [08002]; and the priest [03548] shall burn [06999] it upon the altar [04196] for a sweet [05207] savour [07381] unto the LORD [03068]; and the priest [03548] shall make an atonement [03722] for him, and it shall be forgiven [05545] him.
8 And he shall take off [07311] from it all the fat [02459] of the bullock [06499] for the sin offering [02403]; the fat [02459] that covereth [03680] the inwards [07130], and all the fat [02459] that is upon the inwards [07130],
3 And he shall offer [07126] of the sacrifice [02077] of the peace offering [08002] an offering made by fire [0801] unto the LORD [03068]; the fat [02459] that covereth [03680] the inwards [07130], and all the fat [02459] that is upon the inwards [07130],
2 And he shall bring [0935] it to Aaron's [0175] sons [01121] the priests [03548]: and he shall take [07061] thereout [08033] his handful [07062] [04393] of the flour [05560] thereof, and of the oil [08081] thereof, with all the frankincense [03828] thereof; and the priest [03548] shall burn [06999] the memorial [0234] of it upon the altar [04196], to be an offering made by fire [0801], of a sweet [05207] savour [07381] unto the LORD [03068]:
9 And the priest [03548] shall take [07311] from the meat offering [04503] a memorial [0234] thereof, and shall burn [06999] it upon the altar [04196]: it is an offering made by fire [0801], of a sweet [05207] savour [07381] unto the LORD [03068].
1 And when any [05315] will offer [07126] a meat [04503] offering [07133] unto the LORD [03068], his offering [07133] shall be of fine flour [05560]; and he shall pour [03332] oil [08081] upon it, and put [05414] frankincense [03828] thereon:
2 And he shall bring [0935] it to Aaron's [0175] sons [01121] the priests [03548]: and he shall take [07061] thereout [08033] his handful [07062] [04393] of the flour [05560] thereof, and of the oil [08081] thereof, with all the frankincense [03828] thereof; and the priest [03548] shall burn [06999] the memorial [0234] of it upon the altar [04196], to be an offering made by fire [0801], of a sweet [05207] savour [07381] unto the LORD [03068]:
3 And the remnant [03498] of the meat offering [04503] shall be Aaron's [0175] and his sons [01121]': it is a thing most [06944] holy [06944] of the offerings [0801] of the LORD [03068] made by fire [0801].
4 And if thou bring [07126] an oblation [07133] of a meat offering [04503] baken [03989] in the oven [08574], it shall be unleavened [04682] cakes [02471] of fine flour [05560] mingled [01101] with oil [08081], or unleavened [04682] wafers [07550] anointed [04886] with oil [08081].
5 And if thy oblation [07133] be a meat offering [04503] baken in a pan [04227], it shall be of fine flour [05560] unleavened [04682], mingled [01101] with oil [08081].
6 Thou shalt part [06626] it in pieces [06595], and pour [03332] oil [08081] thereon: it is a meat offering [04503].
7 And if thy oblation [07133] be a meat offering [04503] baken in the fryingpan [04802], it shall be made [06213] of fine flour [05560] with oil [08081].