Bible Strands
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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The text records Moses relaying divine instructions to the Israelites regarding the completion of a Nazirite vow. God speaks through Moses at the moment of ritual consecration when the vow-taker presents specific offerings to the priest.
The words — The Hebrew term סַל (sal) denotes a "basket" used to carry the Nazirite's grain offerings, while מַצּוֹת (matzot) specifies "unleavened bread" or cakes. These items are explicitly described as fine flour (סֹלֶת, solet) mixed or coated with oil (שֶׁמֶן, shemen).
The thread — This specific combination of unleavened flour products appears in priestly ordination instructions (Exodus 29:2) and grain offering regulations (Leviticus 2:4). The accompanying drink offering is also noted in Numbers 15:10.
Why it lands — The verse requires the Nazirite to provide precisely measured, specific food items for ritual presentation. It establishes that ritual compliance demands adherence to exact compositional standards for sacred offerings.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings.
Cross-references
- 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,
- 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.
- Numbers 15:10 Also present half a hin of wine as a drink offering. It is a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
- 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 9:4 an ox and a ram for a peace offering to sacrifice before the LORD, and a grain offering mixed with oil. For today the LORD will appear to you.’”
- Numbers 15:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
- Isaiah 62:9 For those who harvest grain will eat it and praise the LORD, and those who gather grapes will drink the wine in My holy courts.”
- Joel 1:9 Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.
- Joel 1:13 Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
- Joel 2:14 Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him—grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.