Exodus 29:40

40 With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, [a] mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives, [b] and a drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.

Exodus 29:40 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 29:40

And with the one lamb a tenth deal
That is, the tenth part of an "ephah", as Jarchi and Aben Ezra, which is an "omer", and held as much as a man could eat in one day, or more, see ( Exodus 16:18 ) :

of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil;
this was a meat, or, rather bread offering, which went along with the daily sacrifice, and typified Christ the food of his people, who is compared to a corn of wheat; is the finest of the wheat, and the bread of God, which came down from heaven, and gives life, food; and nourishment to men; and the "beaten oil" may signify the graces of the Spirit in him, and the exercise of them through the many trials and sufferings he endured, and which make him savoury food to his people, as a crucified Christ is:

and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering;
a "hin", Aben Ezra says, was an Egyptian measure, but what reason he had for it does not appear; according to Ainsworth, the fourth part of it was a pint and a half; but according to Bishop Cumberland F14, who has with great exactness calculated the Jewish measures, it was a quart and above half a pint; this was poured out upon the altar. Jarchi says there were two silver basins on the top of the altar, and there were bored in them like two small nostrils, and wine was put in the middle of them; and it flowed and went out by the way of the nostrils, and fell upon the top of the altar, and from thence descended to the bottom: this wine poured may either signify the blood of Christ shed, or poured out for the remission of sin; or the love of Christ very plentifully manifested in the offering up of himself for men, and the acceptableness of to God: and, moreover, as sacrifices are called the bread of God, and he makes as it were a feast of them, feeding on them with delight and pleasure, it was necessary there should be wine to complete the banquet; wherefore wine is said to cheer both God and man, ( Judges 9:13 ) , alluding to the libations of wine in sacrifices.


FOOTNOTES:

F14 Of Scripture Weights and Measures, c. 3. p. 86.

Exodus 29:40 In-Context

38 This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old.
39 Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight.
40 With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives, and a drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.
41 And offer the second lamb at twilight with the same grain offering and drink offering as in the morning, as a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.
42 For the generations to come, this burnt offering shall be made regularly at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before the LORD, where I will meet you to speak with you.

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. A tenth of an ephah is approximately 2 dry quarts or 2.2 liters (probably about 2.6 pounds or 1.2 kilograms of flour).
  • [b]. Hebrew a quarter hin of pressed oil; that is, approximately 0.97 quarts or 0.92 liters
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