Leviticus 2:1-3

The Grain Offering

1 “ ‘When anyone brings a grain offering to the LORD, their offering is to be of the finest flour. They are to pour olive oil on it, put incense on it

2 and take it to Aaron’s sons the priests. The priest shall take a handful of the flour and oil, together with all the incense, and burn this as a memorial^[a] portion on the altar, a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.

3 The rest of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the food offerings presented to the LORD.

Leviticus 2:1-3 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

• 1. S Exodus 29:41; Leviticus 6:14-18
• 2. Exodus 29:2,40; Leviticus 5:11
• 3. Numbers 15:4; Numbers 28:5
• 4. S Exodus 29:2; Leviticus 7:12
• 5. ver 2,15,16; Leviticus 24:7; Nehemiah 13:9; Isaiah 43:23
• 6. Leviticus 5:11
• 7. Leviticus 6:15; Isaiah 1:13; Isaiah 65:3; Isaiah 66:3
• 8. ver 9,16; Leviticus 5:12; Leviticus 6:15; Leviticus 24:7; Numbers 5:26; Numbers 18:8; Psalms 16:5; Psalms 73:26; Isaiah 53:12; Acts 10:4
• 9. ver 16
• 10. S Leviticus 1:9
• 11. ver 10; Leviticus 6:16; Leviticus 10:12,13
• 12. S Exodus 30:36

Footnotes

• [a] Or "representative" ; also in verses 9 and 16