Leviticus 7:13
in Leviticus 7Along with his peace offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of leavened bread.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
With cakes of leavened bread he shall offer his oblation with the sacrifice of his peace-offerings for thanksgiving.
KJV
Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.
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This verse in Leviticus 7
Commentary
5 notes on this verseLeavened bread - Because this was a sacrifice of another kind than those in which leaven was forbidden, this being a sacrifice of thanksgiving for God's blessings, among which leavened bread was one.
This site's exposition
the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings
on Leviticus 7:11-15
The peace offering stood third in the worshipper's list at chapter 3 and stands last in the priest's list here, so the section that opened with the burnt offering closes with the one sacrifice the offerer eats from. A thanksgiving peace offering carries bread with it, and verse 13 requires leavened bread alongside the unleavened cakes, when leaven is the thing put out of every house at passover. The flesh of a thanksgiving offering is eaten the same day and none of it is left until the morning.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Besides the cakes,....
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings--Besides the usual accompaniments of other sacrifices, leavened bread was offered with the peace offerings, as a thanksgiving, such bread being common at feasts.
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A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
For his offering - The leavened bread was a distinct offering.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
THEN HE SHALL OFFER ‘AL’ THE OFFERING OF THANKSGIVING. The commentators. So explained by Ibn Ezra. have explained the word al as meaning “with” — with the offering of thanksgiving. Similarly, ‘al’ the cakes of leavened bread. Verse. means “with them.
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
AND OF IT HE SHALL PRESENT ONE OUT OF EACH OFFERING — one whole cake [for a heave-offering unto the Eternal ]. Thus he takes as a heave-offering four cakes [and gives them to the priest]. But I wonder!
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. 6 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
10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עַל־ | ʾal- | with | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| חַלֹּת֙ | chalot | round perforated breads | H2471 → | 14 times |
| לֶ֣חֶם | lechem | bread of | H3899 → | 298 times |
| חָמֵ֔ץ | chametz | leaven | H2557 → | 11 times |
| יַקְרִ֖יב | yakriv | he will present | H7126 → | 280 times |
| קָרְבָּנ֑וֹ | karebano | present his | H7133 → | 82 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | with | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| זֶ֖בַח | zevach | [the] sacrifice of | H2077 → | 162 times |
| תּוֹדַ֥ת | todat | [the] thanksgiving of | H8426 → | 31 times |
| שְׁלָמָֽיו׃ | shelamav | peace offering<s> his | H8002 → | 87 times |
עַל־with
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
חַלֹּת֙round perforated breads
chalotH2471 →14 times
לֶ֣חֶםbread of
lechemH3899 →298 times
חָמֵ֔ץleaven
chametzH2557 →11 times
יַקְרִ֖יבhe will present
yakrivH7126 →280 times
קָרְבָּנ֑וֹpresent his
karebanoH7133 →82 times
עַל־with
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
זֶ֖בַח[the] sacrifice of
zevachH2077 →162 times
תּוֹדַ֥ת[the] thanksgiving of
todatH8426 →31 times
שְׁלָמָֽיו׃peace offering<s> his
shelamavH8002 →87 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 Timothy 4:4For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected,
it leads to
- Romans 14:20
Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.
- 1 Corinthians 10:25
Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,
- Romans 14:14
I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.
- 1 Corinthians 10:23
“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is edifying.
- Acts 21:25
As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.”
- Romans 14:20
Through
Matthew 13:33He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”
it leads to
- Galatians 5:9
A little leaven works through the whole batch of dough.
- 1 Corinthians 5:6–7
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
- Luke 13:21
It is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”
- Galatians 5:9
About Leviticus

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Andrew Bonar, A Commentary on Leviticus; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.
