It shall be made in a pan with oil. When it is mixed, you shall bring it in. The baked pieces of the grain offering you shall offer for a sweet aroma to the Lord.
Parallel translations
- WEB It 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.
- KJV In a pan it shall be made with oil; and when it is baken, thou shalt bring it in: and the baken pieces of the meat offering shalt thou offer for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
- BSB It shall be prepared with oil on a griddle; you are to bring it well-kneaded and present it as a grain offering broken in pieces, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
- NASB It shall be prepared with oil on a griddle. When it is well stirred, you shall bring it. You shall present the grain offering in baked pieces as a soothing aroma to the Lord.
- NLT It must be carefully mixed with olive oil and cooked on a griddle. Then slice this grain offering and present it as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
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Quick answer
The offering is prepared with oil on a griddle and presented in pieces as a pleasing aroma. Careful preparation marks the priest's devoted gift.
Overview
The grain is mixed with oil, cooked, and offered in baked pieces, ascending as a 'pleasant aroma' to the LORD. The deliberate preparation reflects wholehearted dedication in worship. As with all such offerings, its acceptability foreshadows the wholly pleasing self-offering of Christ to God.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- Lev 2:5If your offering is a meal offering of the griddle, it shall be of unleavened fine flour, mixed with oil.
- 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.
- 1 Chr 9:31Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the office of trust over the things that were baked in pans.
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