Leviticus 2:7

7 "If you bring a Grain-Offering deep-fried in a pan, make it of fine flour with oil.

Leviticus 2:7 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 2:7

And if thy oblation [be] a meat offering [baken] in the
fryingpan
It is asked ^F13, what difference there is between the pan, and the fryingpan? the fryingpan has a cover, but the pan has no cover; the fryingpan is deep, and its works (or paste) flow, or are thin, but the pan is extended, and its works (or paste) are hard or stiff; which Maimonides ^F14 explains thus, the fryingpan is a deep vessel, which has a lip or edge round about it, and the paste which is baked in it is thin and flows; the pan is a vessel which has no lip or edge, and therefore its paste is hard or stiff, that it flow not: now all these acts of mixing the flour, and kneading, and baking, and frying, and cutting in pieces, as well as burning part on the altar, signify the dolorous sufferings of Christ when he was sacrificed for us, to be both an atonement for our sins, and food for our faith:

it shall be made of fine flour with oil:
as the other sort of meat offerings before mentioned.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 Misn. Menachot. c. 5. sect. 8.
F14 Misn. ib. & Maaseh Hakorbanot, c. 5. sect. 7. Vid. Jarchi & Gersom & Ben Melech in loc.

Leviticus 2:7 In-Context

5 "If you bring a Grain-Offering cooked on a griddle, use fine flour mixed with oil but without yeast.

6 Crumble it and pour oil on it - it's a Grain-Offering.

7 "If you bring a Grain-Offering deep-fried in a pan, make it of fine flour with oil.

8 "Bring the Grain-Offering you make from these ingredients and present it to the priest. He will bring it to the Altar,

9 break off a memorial piece from the Grain-Offering, and burn it on the Altar: a Fire-Gift, a pleasing fragrance to God.