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Leviticus 6:14

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Now this is the law of the grain offering: Aaron’s sons shall present it before the LORD in front of the altar.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And this is the law of the meal-offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before Jehovah, before the altar.

KJV

And this is the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the Lord, before the altar.

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This verse in Leviticus 6

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Of the meal-offering - Of that which was offered alone, and that by any of the people, not by the priest, for then it must have been all burnt. This law before delivered, is here repeated for the sake of some additions made to it.

This site's exposition

And this is the law of the meat offering

on Leviticus 6:14-18

A handful of the flour, the oil and all the frankincense goes up as the memorial, and the rest of it is food. The burnt part is called a sweet savour, a phrase that falls sixteen times in Leviticus and lands almost every time on the burnt, meat and peace offerings; the one exception is the fat of a sin offering at 4:31, and the trespass offering never carries it. What remains is eaten unleavened by the males of Aaron in the court of the tabernacle, and verse 17 says why they have it, that God gave it them for their portion of the offerings made by fire. Verse 18 ends with holiness moving outward by contact, every one that toucheth them shall be holy, and the same clause returns on the sin offering at verse 27.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And this is the law of the meat offering,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

The meat-offering - See Clarke on Lev 2:1 (note), etc.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

מרבכת means, scalded with hot oil to saturation (cf. Sifra, Tzav, Chapter 4 6).
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Leviticus 6:14:1, via Sefaria, Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934

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. 3 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

12 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וְזֹ֥אתand this

    vezotH2063 →603 times

  • תּוֹרַ֖ת[is] [the] legal [procedure] of

    toratH8451 →219 times

  • הַמִּנְחָ֑הthe grain offering

    haminchahH4503 →211 times

  • הַקְרֵ֨בthey will present

    hakrevH7126 →280 times

  • אֹתָ֤הּ<obj.> it

    ʾotahH853 →10935 times

  • בְּנֵֽי־[the] sons of

    benei-H1121 →4930 times

  • אַהֲרֹן֙Aaron

    ʾaharonH175 →347 times

  • לִפְנֵ֣י<to> before

    lifneiH6440 →2123 times

  • יְהוָ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • פְּנֵ֖י[the] face of

    peneiH6440 →2123 times

  • הַמִּזְבֵּֽחַ׃the altar

    hamizbeachH4196 →401 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

6 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Numbers 15:4then the one presenting his offering to the LORD shall also present a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter hin of olive oil.5 worksJohn 6:32Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.3 worksLeviticus 2:1–2“When anyone brings a grain offering to the LORD, his offering must consist of fine flour. He is to pour olive oil on it, put frankincense on it,3 worksNumbers 15:9present with the bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of olive oil.3 worksNumbers 15:6With a ram you are to prepare a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of olive oil,2 worksLeviticus 14:54This is the law for any infectious skin disease, for a scaly outbreak,2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Numbers 15:9

    present with the bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of olive oil.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 14:10

      On the eighth day he is to bring two unblemished male lambs, an unblemished ewe lamb a year old, a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with olive oil,…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Numbers 28:14

      Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine with each bull, a third of a hin with the ram, and a quarter hin with each lamb. This is the monthly burnt offering…

    • Numbers 28:12

      along with three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering with each bull, two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering with…

  • Through

    Numbers 15:4

    then the one presenting his offering to the LORD shall also present a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter hin of olive oil.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 29:40

      With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives, and a drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.

    • Leviticus 2:1

      “When anyone brings a grain offering to the LORD, his offering must consist of fine flour. He is to pour olive oil on it, put frankincense on it,

    • Leviticus 23:13

      along with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil—an offering made by fire to the LORD, a pleasing aroma—and its drink offering of a quarter hin of…

    • Numbers 28:5–8

      along with a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives.

  • Through

    John 6:32

    Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

    it leads to

    • John 15:1

      “I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.

Where this verse is studied

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About Leviticus

Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Leviticus: the study guide →Read Leviticus 6 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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