Leviticus 2

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Laws for Grain Offerings

¹“When anyone brings a grain offering to the LORD, his offering must consist of fine flour. He is to pour olive oil on it, put frankincense on it,

¹“ And when a soul brings near a grain offering, an offering to YHWH, his offering shall be of fine flour. And he shall pour oil on it, and he shall put frankincense on it.

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

²And he shall bring it to the sons of Aaron, the priests, and he shall take from it the fullness of his handful of fine flour and oil with all its frankincense, and the priest shall burn it, its memorial portion, on the altar, a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

³The remainder of the grain offering shall belong to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the food offerings to the LORD.

³And the remainder of the grain offering is for Aaron and for his sons; it is holy of holies from the fire offerings to YHWH.

⁴Now if you bring an offering of grain baked in an oven, it must consist of fine flour, either unleavened cakes mixed with oil or unleavened wafers coated with oil.

⁴And if you bring near an offering of a grain offering baked in an oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with the oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with the oil.

⁵If your offering is a grain offering prepared on a griddle,^a it must be unleavened bread made of fine flour mixed with oil.

⁵And if your offering is a grain offering on the griddle, it shall be of fine flour mixed with the oil, unleavened.

⁶Crumble it and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering.

⁶You shall break it in pieces, and you shall pour oil on it; it is a grain offering.

⁷If your offering is a grain offering cooked in a pan,^a it must consist of fine flour with oil.

⁷And if your offering is a grain offering in a covered pan, it shall be made of fine flour with the oil.

⁸When you bring to the LORD the grain offering made in any of these ways, it is to be presented to the priest, and he shall take it to the altar.

⁸And you shall bring near the grain offering that is made from these things to YHWH, and he shall bring it near to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar.

⁹The priest is to remove the memorial portion from the grain offering and burn it on the altar as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

⁹And the priest shall lift up from the grain offering its memorial portion, and he shall burn it on the altar. It is a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

¹⁰But the remainder of the grain offering shall belong to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the food offerings to the LORD.

¹⁰And what is left from the grain offering is for Aaron and for his sons. It is holy of holies from the fire offerings to YHWH.

¹¹No grain offering that you present to the LORD may be made with leaven, for you are not to burn any leaven or honey as a food offering to the LORD.

¹¹Any grain offering that you bring near to YHWH shall not be made leavened, for any leaven, and any honey, you shall not burn from it a fire offering to the LORD.

¹²You may bring them to the LORD as an offering of firstfruits, but they must not go up on the altar as a pleasing aroma.

¹²An offering of firstfruits you shall bring them near to YHWH; and they shall not go up on the altar for a pleasing aroma.

¹³And you shall season each of your grain offerings with salt. You must not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering; you are to add salt to each of your offerings.

¹³And every offering of your grain offering you shall season with the salt. And the salt of the covenant of your God you shall not allow to cease from on your grain offering; on all your offerings you shall bring near salt.

¹⁴If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer crushed heads of new grain roasted on the fire.

¹⁴And if you bring near a grain offering of firstfruits to YHWH, you shall bring near heads of new grain roasted on the fire, crushed grain from full heads for a grain offering of your firstfruits.

¹⁵And you are to put oil and frankincense on it; it is a grain offering.

¹⁵And you shall put oil on it, and you shall lay frankincense on it; it is a grain offering.

¹⁶The priest shall then burn the memorial portion of the crushed grain and the oil, together with all its frankincense, as a food offering to the LORD.

¹⁶And the priest shall burn its memorial portion from its crushed grain and from its oil with all its frankincense, as a fire offering to YHWH.