Exodus 29:2
in Exodus 29along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,
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ASV
and unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened mingled with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of fine wheaten flour shalt thou make them.
KJV
And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.
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This verse in Exodus 29
Commentary
3 notes on this verseUnleavened bread - Three kinds of bread as to its form are mentioned here, but all unleavened: 1. מצות matstsoth, unleavened bread, no matter in what shape. See Exo 12:8. 2. חלת challoth, cakes, pricked or perforated, as the root implies. 3. רקיקי rekikey, an exceeding thin cake, from רק rak, to be attenuated, properly enough translated wafer. The manner in which these were prepared is sufficiently plain from the text, and probably these were the principal forms in which flour was prepared for household use during their stay in the wilderness.
This site's exposition
to hallow them, to minister unto me
on Exodus 29:1-3
Chapter 28 made the garments and this chapter fills them. The command runs for seven days, and Exodus never reports it carried out, because the ordination itself is recorded in Leviticus 8, which follows this text almost line by line. The bread brought in the basket is unleavened, the bread of the passover night, carried now for a priesthood rather than for a road.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
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How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
This is what you must do for them to consecrate them to serve [ before ] Me [as kohanim].
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
14 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְלֶ֣חֶם | velechem | and bread of | H3899 → | 298 times |
| מַצּ֗וֹת | matzot | unleavened bread<s> | H4682 → | 53 times |
| וְחַלֹּ֤ת | vechalot | and cakes of | H2471 → | |
| מַצֹּת֙ | matzot | unleavened bread<s> | H4682 → | 53 times |
| בְּלוּלֹ֣ת | belulot | mixed | H1101 → | |
| בַּשֶּׁ֔מֶן | bashemen | with <the> oil | H8081 → | 193 times |
| וּרְקִיקֵ֥י | urekikei | and wafers of | H7550 → | |
| מַצּ֖וֹת | matzot | unleavened bread<s> | H4682 → | 53 times |
| מְשֻׁחִ֣ים | meshuchim | smeared | H4886 → | 70 times |
| בַּשָּׁ֑מֶן | bashamen | with <the> oil | H8081 → | 193 times |
| סֹ֥לֶת | solet | fine flour of | H5560 → | |
| חִטִּ֖ים | chitim | wheat<s> | H2406 → | 30 times |
| תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה | taaseh | you will make | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| אֹתָֽם׃ | ʾotam | <obj.> them | H853 → | 10935 times |
וְלֶ֣חֶםand bread of
velechemH3899 →298 times
מַצּ֗וֹתunleavened bread<s>
matzotH4682 →53 times
וְחַלֹּ֤תand cakes of
vechalotH2471 →
מַצֹּת֙unleavened bread<s>
matzotH4682 →53 times
בְּלוּלֹ֣תmixed
belulotH1101 →
בַּשֶּׁ֔מֶןwith <the> oil
bashemenH8081 →193 times
וּרְקִיקֵ֥יand wafers of
urekikeiH7550 →
מַצּ֖וֹתunleavened bread<s>
matzotH4682 →53 times
מְשֻׁחִ֣יםsmeared
meshuchimH4886 →70 times
בַּשָּׁ֑מֶןwith <the> oil
bashamenH8081 →193 times
סֹ֥לֶתfine flour of
soletH5560 →
חִטִּ֖יםwheat<s>
chitimH2406 →30 times
תַּעֲשֶׂ֥הyou will make
taasehH6213 →2628 times
אֹתָֽם׃<obj.> them
ʾotamH853 →10935 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
1 Corinthians 5:7Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
it leads to
- 1 Peter 1:19–20
but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.
- Ephesians 4:22
to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
- Colossians 3:5–9
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
- Exodus 12:15
For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be…
- John 1:29
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
- 1 Peter 1:19–20
Through
Exodus 12:8They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
it leads to
- Exodus 34:25
Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to Me along with anything leavened, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.
- Deuteronomy 16:7
And you shall roast it and eat it in the place the LORD your God will choose, and in the morning you shall return to your tents.
- Exodus 34:25
Through
Numbers 6:15together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—and a basket of unleavened cakes made from fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers coated with oil.
it leads to
- Leviticus 2:4
Now if you bring an offering of grain baked in an oven, it must consist of fine flour, either unleavened cakes mixed with oil or unleavened wafers coated with oil.
- Leviticus 2:4
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
