If your grain offering is cooked on a griddle, it must be made of choice flour mixed with olive oil but without any yeast.
Parallel translations
- WEB If your offering is a meal offering of the griddle, it shall be of unleavened fine flour, mixed with oil.
- KJV And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in a pan, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.
- BSB If your offering is a grain offering prepared on a griddle, it must be unleavened bread made of fine flour mixed with oil.
- NKJV But if your offering is a grain offering baked in a pan, it shall be of fine flour, unleavened, mixed with oil.
- NASB And if your offering is a grain offering made on the griddle, it shall be of fine flour, unleavened, mixed with oil;
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Quick answer
A grain offering cooked on a griddle must be unleavened fine flour mixed with oil. God accepts offerings prepared in various ways, all kept pure.
Overview
This describes another method of preparing the grain offering, baked flat on a griddle. The consistent requirements of fine flour, oil, and no leaven preserve the offering's quality and symbolic purity. The variety of preparations shows God's accommodation of different circumstances while maintaining the holiness of what is offered to Him.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 2
- Lev 7:9Every meal offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is dressed in the pan, and on the griddle, shall be the priest’s who offers it.
- Lev 6:21It shall be made with oil in a griddle. When it is soaked, you shall bring it in. You shall offer the meal offering in baked pieces for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
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