The prince will provide a basket of flour as a grain offering and a gallon of olive oil with each young bull and ram.
Parallel translations
- WEB He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
- KJV And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah.
- BSB 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.
- NKJV And he shall prepare a grain offering of one ephah for each bull and one ephah for each ram, together with a hin of oil for each ephah.
- NASB And he shall provide as a grain offering an ephah with a bull, an ephah with a ram, and a hin of oil with an ephah.
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Quick answer
Accompanying grain and oil offerings are prescribed in fixed measures alongside the sacrifices.
Overview
Grain and oil offerings, given in set proportions, accompany the animal sacrifices as expressions of thanksgiving and devotion. They acknowledge God's provision of the harvest and complete the worship at the feast. Such ordered, generous worship reflects a heart devoted to God, the kind of grateful offering His people render in light of Christ's gift.
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Cross-references · 2
- Ezek 46:5–7and the meal offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and the meal offering for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
- Num 28:12–15and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; and two tenth parts of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram;
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