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Exodus 29:2
along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God instructs Moses on the consecration ritual for Aaron and his sons. This directive specifies the exact bread offerings required alongside the sacrificial animals.
The words — The text specifies מַצּוֹת (matzot), meaning unleavened bread, and רְקִיקֵי (rekikey), meaning wafers. These terms denote bread prepared without fermentation and spread thinly.
The thread — This basket of unleavened bread appears again in Numbers 6:15 as part of a Nazirite offering and echoes the Passover meal in Exodus 12:8. Exodus 29:23 later references taking one loaf and cake from this same basket.
Why it lands — The reader must identify the precise ingredients and preparation methods required for priestly consecration. The text demands exact compliance with the specified bread types and their composition.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.
Cross-references
- Numbers 6:15 together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—and a basket of unleavened cakes made from fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers coated with oil.
- Exodus 12:8 They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
- Exodus 29:23 along with one loaf of bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD.
- Leviticus 2:4 Now 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.
- Leviticus 2:15 And you are to put oil and frankincense on it; it is a grain offering.
- Leviticus 6:19 Then the LORD said to Moses,
- Leviticus 7:10 and every grain offering, whether dry or mixed with oil, belongs equally to all the sons of Aaron.
- Leviticus 7:12 If he offers it in thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.
- Leviticus 8:2 “Take Aaron and his sons, their garments, the anointing oil, the bull of the sin offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,
- Leviticus 8:26 And from the basket of unleavened bread that was before the LORD, he took one cake of unleavened bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer, and he placed them on the fat portions and on the right thigh.