Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil.
Parallel translations
- WEB 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:
- 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 28:14And their drink offerings shall be half an hin of wine unto a bullock, and the third part of an hin unto a ram, and a fourth part of an hin unto a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.
- Num 28:12And three tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one bullock; and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one ram;
- Lev 6:14And this is the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the LORD, before the altar.
- Lev 14:10And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
- Ezek 46:15Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering.
- Joel 1:9The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn.
- Joel 2:14Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?
- Ezek 46:5And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
- Num 29:6Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
- Neh 10:33For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
- Ezek 46:11And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
- Ezek 46:7And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
- 1 Chr 21:23And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.
- Ezek 42:13Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat 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 meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings;
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