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Leviticus 23:13
along with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil—a food offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma—and its drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses relays Yahweh’s directive to Israel regarding the wave sheaf festival. The command specifies the exact quantities of flour, oil, and wine required alongside the year-old lamb on that designated day.
The words — The text specifies מִנְחָה (minchah), meaning a grain or food offering, and אִשָּׁה (ishshah), denoting a fire offering presented to Yahweh. These terms designate the prescribed portions of fine flour mixed with oil and the accompanying wine.
The thread — Similar prescribed measurements for grain and drink offerings appear in Exodus 29:40 and Leviticus 2:14. The prohibition against consuming new grain until this offering is completed is reiterated in Leviticus 23:14.
Why it lands — The passage demands exact compliance with the specified quantities and sequence of offerings before any consumption of the new harvest. It requires the reader to acknowledge that worship follows a fixed, non-negotiable structure rather than personal preference.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the Lord for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.
Cross-references
- Leviticus 2:14 If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer crushed heads of new grain roasted on the fire.
- Exodus 29:40 With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives, and a drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.
- Exodus 30:9 On this altar you must not offer unauthorized incense or a burnt offering or grain offering; nor are you to pour a drink offering on it.
- Exodus 30:24 500 shekels of cassia—all according to the sanctuary shekel—and a hin of olive oil.
- Leviticus 6:20 “This is the offering that Aaron and his sons must present to the LORD on the day he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening.
- Leviticus 14:10 On the eighth day he is to bring two unblemished male lambs, an unblemished ewe lamb a year old, a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with olive oil, and one log of olive oil.
- Numbers 15:3 and you present a food offering to the LORD from the herd or flock to produce a pleasing aroma to the LORD—either a burnt offering or a sacrifice, for a special vow or freewill offering or appointed feast—
- Numbers 28:10 This is the burnt offering for every Sabbath, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.
- Ezekiel 4:11 You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times.
- Ezekiel 45:24 He shall also provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull and an ephah for each ram, along with a hin of olive oil for each ephah of grain.