Bible Strands
Leviticus 6:17
It must not be baked with leaven; I have assigned it as their portion of My food offerings. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses Moses, who conveys the directive to Aaron and his sons concerning the final stages of the grain offering.
The words — חָמֵץ (cha.Metz) = leaven and נָתַתִּי (na.Ta.ti) = I have given. The text states the offering must not be baked with leaven and declares God has assigned it as the priests' portion.
The thread — The ban on leaven in grain offerings appears in Leviticus 2:11, and the priestly allocation is recorded in Leviticus 2:3. The immediate context in Leviticus 6:16 and 6:18 specifies the eating location and eligible eaters, while Leviticus 6:25 extends the holiness designation to the sin offering.
Why it lands — The passage establishes a fixed preparation rule and a permanent, most holy status for the assigned portion. It requires readers to recognize that designated sacred food carries the same strict boundaries and reverence as the sin and guilt offerings.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.
Cross-references
- Leviticus 2:3 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.
- Leviticus 2:11 No 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.
- Leviticus 6:25 “Tell Aaron and his sons that this is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, the sin offering shall be slaughtered before the LORD; it is most holy.
- Numbers 18:9 A portion of the most holy offerings reserved from the fire will be yours. From all the offerings they render to Me as most holy offerings, whether grain offerings or sin offerings or guilt offerings, that part belongs to you and your sons.
- Exodus 29:33 They must eat those things by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no outsider may eat them, because these things are sacred.
- Leviticus 6:29 Any male among the priests may eat it; it is most holy.
- Leviticus 7:1 “Now this is the law of the guilt offering, which is most holy:
- Exodus 29:37 For seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will become most holy; whatever touches the altar will be holy.
- Exodus 40:10 Anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils; consecrate the altar, and it shall be most holy.
- Leviticus 7:6 Every male among the priests may eat of it. It must be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.