you shall break it into bits and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall cut it in pieces, and pour oil on it. It is a meal offering.
- KJV Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it is a meat offering.
- BSB Crumble it and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering.
- NKJV You shall break it in pieces and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering.
- NLT Break it in pieces and pour olive oil on it; it is a grain offering.
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Quick answer
The griddle offering is broken into pieces with oil poured on it. The offering is fully prepared and saturated with oil before being presented.
Overview
Breaking the cake and adding oil completes its preparation as a grain offering. The pervasive use of oil, often a symbol of God's blessing and the Spirit, marks the offering as rich and dedicated. The careful preparation reflects the wholehearted devotion God desires, a devotion empowered for believers by the Holy Spirit given through Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Ps 22:1–21For the Chief Musician; set to “The Doe of the Morning.” A Psalm by David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
- John 18:1–19When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered.
- Mark 14:1–15It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.
- Lev 1:6He shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into pieces.
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Every sacrifice, every priest, and every day of atonement points beyond itself to the one perfect offering and the great High Priest who, by his own blood, makes the unclean holy once for all.
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