It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.
Parallel translations
- WEB It shall not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy, as the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.
- BSB It must not be baked with leaven; I have assigned it as their portion of My offerings made by fire. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
- NKJV It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of My offerings made by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the trespass offering.
- NASB It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their share from My offerings by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
- NLT Remember, it must never be prepared with yeast. I have given it to the priests as their share of the special gifts presented to me. Like the sin offering and the guilt offering, it is most holy.
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Quick answer
The priests' portion must be baked without yeast, for it is most holy like the sin and trespass offerings. What is devoted to God carries great sanctity.
Overview
The exclusion of yeast, often associated with corruption, and the designation 'most holy' set this portion apart. God grants it to the priests as their share of the fire-offerings, yet insists on its purity. The careful holiness surrounding what is given to God prepares us to honor Christ, the truly holy offering, and to put away the leaven of sin (1 Corinthians 5:7-8).
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Cross-references · 11
- Lev 2:3And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’: it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.
- Num 18:9–10This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons.
- Lev 6:25Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it is most holy.
- Lev 2:11No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.
- Lev 7:1Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy.
- Lev 6:29All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most holy.
- Exod 29:33–34And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.
- Exod 40:10And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy.
- Exod 29:37Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.
- Lev 7:6Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.
- 1 Pet 2:22Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
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