Numbers 28:5

5 With each lamb you must offer a grain offering of two quarts of choice flour mixed with one quart of pure oil of pressed olives.

Numbers 28:5 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 28:5

And the tenth part of an ephah of flour for a meat offering,
&c.] Which always went along with the burnt offering:

mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil:
which in those times and countries was used instead of butter; and fine flour and this mingled together made a "minchah", or bread offering, as it should rather be called; of the measures used, (See Gill on Exodus 29:40).

Numbers 28:5 In-Context

3 “Say to the people: This is the special gift you must present to the LORD as your daily burnt offering. You must offer two one-year-old male lambs with no defects.

4 Sacrifice one lamb in the morning and the other in the evening.

5 With each lamb you must offer a grain offering of two quarts of choice flour mixed with one quart of pure oil of pressed olives.

6 This is the regular burnt offering instituted at Mount Sinai as a special gift, a pleasing aroma to the LORD .

7 Along with it you must present the proper liquid offering of one quart of alcoholic drink with each lamb, poured out in the Holy Place as an offering to the LORD .

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew of an ephah [2.2 liters]; also in 28:13, 21, 29 .
• [b]. Hebrew of a hin [1 liter]; also in 28:7 .