Leviticus 6:21

21 It shall be made with oil in a baking pan. When it is soaked, you shall bring it in. You shall offer the meal offering in baked pieces for a sweet savor to the LORD.

Leviticus 6:21 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 6:21

In a pan it shall be made with oil
With oil olive, as the Targum of Jonathan; the pan in which it was made was a vessel that had no covering, nor hollow in the middle, nor any lip or edge, but was a plane, and extended, and the dough made on it was hard and stiff, that it might not run off F18. In the temple was a chamber of those that made the cakes F19, where, as Bartenora F20 observes, was prepared the meat offering, which the high priest offered, one half in the morning, and the other half in the evening:

[and when it is] baked, thou shalt bring it in;
not thoroughly baked, but very little, as says Josephus, hastily, so that it swells, and rises up in bubbles. Jarchi says, the flour was first mixed in hot water, and after that it was baked in an oven, and then fried in a pan:

and the baked pieces of the meat offering shalt thou offer [for] a
sweet savour unto the Lord;
or the meat offering cut in pieces shalt thou offer, as both the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem; the twelve cakes were broken each into two, and twelve halves were offered in the morning, and twelve at evening: the manner in which it was done was, the priest divided every cake into two by measure, so that he might offer half in the morning, and half in the evening; and he took the halves and doubled everyone of them into two, and broke them, until he found every broken piece doubled into two, and he offered the halves with half the handful of frankincense in the morning, and in like manner in the evening F21: this may have respect to the body of Christ being broken for us, whereby he became fit food for faith, and an offering of a sweet smelling savour to God.


FOOTNOTES:

F18 Misn. Menachot, c. 5. sect. 8. & Maimon. & Bartenora in ib. Maimon. Maasch Hakorbanot, c. 13. sect. 7.
F19 Misn. Middot, c. 1. sect. 4.
F20 In ib.
F21 Maimon. Misn. Middot. sect. 4.

Leviticus 6:21 In-Context

19 The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,
20 "This is the offering of Aharon and of his sons, which they shall offer to the LORD in the day when he is anointed: the tenth part of an efah of fine flour for a meal offering perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening.
21 It shall be made with oil in a baking pan. When it is soaked, you shall bring it in. You shall offer the meal offering in baked pieces for a sweet savor to the LORD.
22 The anointed Kohen that will be in his place from among his sons shall offer it. By a statute forever, it shall be wholly burnt to the LORD.
23 Every meal offering of a Kohen shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten."
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