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Leviticus 2:15-16

You shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it. It is a meal offering. The priest shall burn as its memorial part of its crushed grain and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense. It is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

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“ ‘If you offer a meal offering of first fruits to Yahweh, you shall offer for the meal offering of your first fruits fresh heads of grain parched with fire and crushed. You shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it. It is a meal offering. The priest shall burn as its memorial part of its crushed grain and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense. It is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    You shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it. It is a meal offering.

    The priest shall burn as its memorial part of its crushed grain and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense. It is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

  • KJV King James Version

    And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is a meat offering.

    And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of the beaten corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

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  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon; it is a meal-offering.

    And the priest shall make the memorial-part of it smoke, even of the groats thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

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Cross-references (9)

  • Isaiah 11:2-4 (v16) Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of…
  • Isaiah 61:1 (v16) The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken…
  • Romans 8:26-27 (v16) In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession…
  • Hebrews 5:7 (v16) He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from…
  • Leviticus 2:1-2 (v16) “ ‘When anyone offers an offering of a meal offering to Yahweh, his offering shall be of fine flour. He shall pour oil on it, and put…
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  • Leviticus 2:4-7 (v16) “ ‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or…
  • Leviticus 2:9 (v16) The priest shall take from the meal offering its memorial, and shall burn it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to…
  • Leviticus 2:12 (v16) As an offering of first fruits you shall offer them to Yahweh, but they shall not rise up as a pleasant aroma on the altar.
  • Psalms 141:2 (v16) Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv15–16 Lev 2:15 And thou shalt put oil upon it,…

Lev 2:15 And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it [is] a meat offering.

Ver. 15. And thou shalt put oil upon it.] Signifying the graces of God in Christ and his members, and the sweet odour of his oblation for us.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv15–16 And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On v16 Made by fire - The fire denotes that fervency…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v16 Lev 2:16. Made by fire — The fire denotes…
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