Leviticus 2:12-16

12 1As an offering of firstfruits you may bring them to the LORD, but they shall not be offered on the altar for a pleasing aroma.
13 You 2shall season all your grain offerings with salt. You shall not let the 3salt of the covenant with your God be missing from your grain offering; 4with all your offerings you shall offer salt.
14 "If you offer a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits fresh 5ears, roasted with fire, crushed new grain.
15 And 6you shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it; it is a grain offering.
16 And the priest shall burn as its 7memorial portion some of the crushed grain and some of the oil with all of its frankincense; it is a food offering to the LORD.

Leviticus 2:12-16 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 2

This chapter contains the law of the meat offering, and gives an account of what it was made of, fine flour, with oil poured, and frankincense put upon it, Le 2:1 what was done with it; part of it burnt upon the altar, and the rest was the property of the priests, Le 2:2,3,8-10 how it was to be when baked in an oven, or in a pan, or fried in a frying pan, Le 2:4-7 what was prohibited in it, leaven and honey, Le 2:11 what was to be used in it, salt, Le 2:13 and what was to be the oblation and meat offering of the first fruits, and what to be done with it, Le 2:12,14-16.

Cross References 7

  • 1. See Exodus 23:19
  • 2. Colossians 4:6
  • 3. Numbers 18:19; [2 Chronicles 13:5]
  • 4. Ezekiel 43:24
  • 5. Leviticus 23:14; [Joshua 5:11]
  • 6. ver. 1
  • 7. See ver. 2
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