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.
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.
- KJV 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.
- 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.
- 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 2:3That which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is a most holy thing of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.
- Num 18:9–10This shall be yours of the most holy things from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.
- Lev 6:25“Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the sin offering: in the place where the burnt offering is killed, the sin offering shall be killed before Yahweh. It is most holy.
- Lev 2:11“‘No meal offering, which you shall offer to Yahweh, shall be made with yeast; for you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
- Lev 7:1“‘This is the law of the trespass offering. It is most holy.
- Lev 6:29Every male among the priests shall eat of it: it is most holy.
- Exod 29:33–34They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy.
- Exod 40:10You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, and sanctify the altar: and the altar will be most holy.
- Exod 29:37Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it: and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar shall be holy.
- Lev 7:6Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.
- 1 Pet 2:22who did not sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”
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