along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,
Parallel translations
- WEB unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil: you shall make them of fine wheat flour.
- KJV And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.
- NKJV and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil (you shall make them of wheat flour).
- NASB and unleavened bread and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil; you shall make them of fine wheat flour.
- NLT Then, using choice wheat flour and no yeast, make loaves of bread, thin cakes mixed with olive oil, and wafers spread with oil.
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Quick answer
Unleavened bread, oiled cakes, and oiled wafers of fine flour were prepared for the consecration. These grain offerings accompanied the sacrifices.
Overview
The unleavened bread, free from corruption (often a picture of sin), and the fine flour mixed with oil expressed purity and the Spirit's enabling. They formed part of the offerings dedicating the priests to God. The unleavened bread and oil point toward purity and anointing fulfilled in Christ and his people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Num 6:15together 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.
- Lev 7:10and every grain offering, whether dry or mixed with oil, belongs equally to all the sons of Aaron.
- 1 Cor 5:7Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
- Lev 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,
- Lev 2:15And you are to put oil and frankincense on it; it is a grain offering.
- Lev 2:4–5Now 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.
- Lev 6:19–23Then the LORD said to Moses,
- Exod 12:8They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
- Lev 8:26And 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.
- Num 6:19And the priest is to take the boiled shoulder from the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put them into the hands of the Nazirite who has just shaved the hair of his consecration.
- Exod 29:23along 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.
- Lev 7:12If 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.
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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