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Leviticus 7:13

in Leviticus 7

Along 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.

This verse in Leviticus 7

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Leavened 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 & Brown

1802–1910

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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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.
Ramban: Spain, 1194–1270 · Ramban on Leviticus 7:12:1, via Sefaria, Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976
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!
Ramban: Spain, 1194–1270 · Ramban on Leviticus 7:14:1, via Sefaria, Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976

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 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.

  • עַל־with

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • חַלֹּת֙round perforated breads

    chalotH247114 times

  • לֶ֣חֶםbread of

    lechemH3899298 times

  • חָמֵ֔ץleaven

    chametzH255711 times

  • יַקְרִ֖יבhe will present

    yakrivH7126280 times

  • קָרְבָּנ֑וֹpresent his

    karebanoH713382 times

  • עַל־with

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • זֶ֖בַח[the] sacrifice of

    zevachH2077162 times

  • תּוֹדַ֥ת[the] thanksgiving of

    todatH842631 times

  • שְׁלָמָֽיו׃peace offering<s> his

    shelamavH800287 times

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

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

    1 Timothy 4:4

    For 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.”

  • Through

    Matthew 13:33

    He 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.”

About Leviticus

Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

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.