Leviticus 23:13
in Leviticus 23along 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 wine.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the meal-offering thereof shall be two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto Jehovah for a sweet savor; and the drink-offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.
KJV
And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the Lord for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.
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This verse in Leviticus 23
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThe reason of which disproportion may be this, that one of the tenth deals was a necessary attendant upon the lamb, and the other was peculiar to this feast, and was an attendant upon that of the corn, and was offered with it in thanksgiving to God for the fruits of the earth.
This site's exposition
On the day you wave the sheaf
on Leviticus 23:12-14
A lamb, fine flour mixed with oil and a quarter hin of wine go up with the sheaf, so the first grain never comes alone. Verse 14 forbids bread, roasted grain and new grain until the offering has been brought.
This site's exposition
two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour
The grain offering is two-tenths of an ephah, double the tenth that goes with a lamb. John Wesley reads one tenth as the lamb's usual portion and the other as this feast's own, a thanksgiving for the fruits of the earth. The loaves of verse 17 use the same measure.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil,....
How the passage was read
On Leviticus 23:1-44On Leviticus 23:1-44
The year Israel keeps
This chapter is the calendar of the whole Jewish year, and every feast in it is still on the calendar today. In order: the weekly Sabbath; Passover and Unleavened Bread in spring (now kept as the seder meal and a week without leavened bread); Firstfruits (the first sheaf of barley waved before God); Weeks, in Hebrew Shavuot, fifty days later (Christians know the Greek name: Pentecost); then in autumn the Day of Trumpets (now Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, announced by the ram's-horn trumpet called a shofar), the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur, the great fast), and Tabernacles, in Hebrew Sukkot, when families still build and eat in leafy backyard booths for a week, remembering the wilderness.
So when the New Testament says Jesus or Paul went up for “the feast,” it means one of these appointments: the same calendar, kept for over three thousand years.
What the Jewish commentators add
ומנחתו AND THE MEAL OFFERING THEREOF — i. e. the usual meal-offering that was brought together with its drink-offering,
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.
Sources: The Feasts of the LORD (this site's study of all seven) · Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 1:1 (the four new years)
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּמִנְחָתוֹ֩ | uminchato | and grain offering its | H4503 → | 211 times |
| שְׁנֵ֨י | shenei | [will be] two | H8147 → | 768 times |
| עֶשְׂרֹנִ֜ים | ʾesronim | tenths | H6241 → | 33 times |
| סֹ֣לֶת | solet | fine flour | H5560 → | 53 times |
| בְּלוּלָ֥ה | belulah | mixed | H1101 → | 43 times |
| בַשֶּׁ֛מֶן | vashemen | with <the> oil | H8081 → | 193 times |
| אִשֶּׁ֥ה | ʾisheh | a fire offering | H801 → | 65 times |
| לַיהוָ֖ה | layahweh | to Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| רֵ֣יחַ | reiach | an odor of | H7381 → | 58 times |
| נִיחֹ֑חַ | nichoach | soothing | H5207 → | 43 times |
| וְנִסְכּ֥וֹ | venisko | and drink offering its | H5262 → | 64 times |
| יַ֖יִן | yayin | [will be] wine | H3196 → | |
| רְבִיעִ֥ת | reviit | <the> fourth of | H7243 → | |
| הַהִֽין׃ | hahin | <the> hin | H1969 → |
וּמִנְחָתוֹ֩and grain offering its
uminchatoH4503 →211 times
שְׁנֵ֨י[will be] two
sheneiH8147 →768 times
עֶשְׂרֹנִ֜יםtenths
ʾesronimH6241 →33 times
סֹ֣לֶתfine flour
soletH5560 →53 times
בְּלוּלָ֥הmixed
belulahH1101 →43 times
בַשֶּׁ֛מֶןwith <the> oil
vashemenH8081 →193 times
אִשֶּׁ֥הa fire offering
ʾishehH801 →65 times
לַיהוָ֖הto Yahweh
layahwehH3068 →6520 times
רֵ֣יחַan odor of
reiachH7381 →58 times
נִיחֹ֑חַsoothing
nichoachH5207 →43 times
וְנִסְכּ֥וֹand drink offering its
veniskoH5262 →64 times
יַ֖יִן[will be] wine
yayinH3196 →
רְבִיעִ֥ת<the> fourth of
reviitH7243 →
הַהִֽין׃<the> hin
hahinH1969 →
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
Exodus 30:9On this altar you must not offer unauthorized incense or a burnt offering or grain offering; nor are you to pour a drink offering on it.
it leads to
- Leviticus 10:1
Now Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense, and offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to His command.
- Leviticus 10:1
Through
Leviticus 6:20“This is the offering that Aaron and his sons must present to the LORD on the day he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half…
it leads to
- Exodus 16:36
(Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)
- Exodus 29:2
along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,
- Hebrews 5:1
Every high priest is appointed from among men to represent them in matters relating to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.
- Leviticus 5:11
But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, he may bring a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering. He must not put olive oil or frankincense…
- Hebrews 8:3–4
And since every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, it was necessary for this One also to have something to offer.
- Exodus 16:36
Through
Ezekiel 4:11You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times.
it leads to
- Isaiah 5:13
Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.
- Ezekiel 4:16
Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water…
- Isaiah 5:13
Where this verse is studied
On this page
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About Leviticus
This page draws on 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 Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.