then shall he offer with the bull a meal offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil:
Parallel translations
- KJV Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil.
- BSB present with the bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of olive oil.
- NKJV then shall be offered with the young bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil;
- NASB then you shall offer with the bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil;
- NLT you must also give a grain offering of six quarts of choice flour mixed with two quarts of olive oil,
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The bull required the largest grain offering of flour and oil. The abundance matched the greatness of the sacrifice.
Overview
For a bull, the prescribed grain offering used the most flour and oil of all. The generous measures expressed the worshiper's full devotion in the most significant sacrifices. The careful gradation throughout these laws taught Israel to give to God in proportion and with wholehearted intent.
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Cross-references · 15
- Num 28:14Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, and the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.
- Num 28:12and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; and two tenth parts of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram;
- Lev 6:14“‘This is the law of the meal offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before Yahweh, before the altar.
- Lev 14:10“On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without defect, and one ewe lamb a year old without defect, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
- Ezek 46:15Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meal offering, and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt offering.
- Joel 1:9The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh’s house. The priests, Yahweh’s ministers, mourn.
- Joel 2:14Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.
- Ezek 46:5and the meal offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and the meal offering for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
- Num 29:6besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and its meal offering, and the continual burnt offering and its meal offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
- Neh 10:33for the show bread, for the continual meal offering, for the continual burnt offering, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
- Ezek 46:11In the feasts and in the solemnities the meal offering shall be an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
- Ezek 46:7and he shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for the bull, and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs according as he is able, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
- 1 Chr 21:23Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all.”
- Ezek 42:13Then he said to me, The north rooms and the south rooms, which are before the separate place, they are the holy rooms, where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.
- Lev 7:37This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meal offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecration, and of the sacrifice of peace offerings;
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