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Leviticus 7:12

in Leviticus 7

If he offers it in thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour soaked.

KJV

If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.

This verse in Leviticus 7

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

this is the law of the peace offering

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. It is the one sacrifice the offerer eats from.

This site's exposition

If he offers it in thanksgiving

A peace offering brought in thanksgiving comes with three kinds of unleavened bread. They are cakes mixed with oil, wafers coated with oil, and cakes of fine flour well kneaded with oil. Albert Barnes defines the thanksgiving as a thank offering for mercies received.

The record, by era

The Reformation1 voice

A commentator

John Calvin

1509–1564

Commentaries (1554)

proposed

If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

If he offer it for a thanksgiving,....

The Nineteenth Century3 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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A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

If he offer it for a thanksgiving - See the notes at the end of this chapter at Lev 7:38 (note).
For a thanksgiving - i. e., a thank-offering for mercies received.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

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

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

21 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.

  • אִ֣םif

    ʾimH518 →1069 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • תּוֹדָה֮thanksgiving

    todahH8426 →31 times

  • יַקְרִיבֶנּוּ֒he will present it

    yakrivenuH7126 →280 times

  • וְהִקְרִ֣יב׀and he will present

    vehikrivH7126 →280 times

  • עַל־with

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • זֶ֣בַח[the] sacrifice of

    zevachH2077 →162 times

  • הַתּוֹדָ֗ה<the> thanksgiving

    hatodahH8426 →31 times

  • חַלּ֤וֹתround perforated breads of

    chalotH2471 →14 times

  • מַצּוֹת֙unleavened bread<s>

    matzotH4682 →53 times

  • בְּלוּלֹ֣תmixed

    belulotH1101 →43 times

  • בַּשֶּׁ֔מֶןwith <the> oil

    bashemenH8081 →193 times

  • וּרְקִיקֵ֥יand thin breads of

    urekikeiH7550 →8 times

  • מַצּ֖וֹתunleavened bread<s>

    matzotH4682 →53 times

  • מְשֻׁחִ֣יםsmeared

    meshuchimH4886 →70 times

  • בַּשָּׁ֑מֶןwith <the> oil

    bashamenH8081 →193 times

  • וְסֹ֣לֶתand fine flour

    vesoletH5560 →53 times

  • מֻרְבֶּ֔כֶתmixed

    murbekhetH7246 →

  • חַלֹּ֖תround perforated breads

    chalotH2471 →14 times

  • בְּלוּלֹ֥תmixed

    belulotH1101 →43 times

  • בַּשָּֽׁמֶן׃with <the> oil

    bashamenH8081 →193 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 Peter 2:5

    you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

    it leads to

    • Ephesians 2:20–22

      built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.

    • 1 Peter 2:9

      But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

    • 1 Corinthians 3:9

      For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

    • Revelation 5:10

      You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth.”

    • 1 Corinthians 3:16

      Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

  • Through

    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.

    it leads to

    • 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,

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Luke 17:16

    He fell facedown at Jesus’ feet in thanksgiving to Him—and he was a Samaritan.

    it leads to

    • Acts 8:5–25

      Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Christ to them.

  • Through

    Psalms 116:17

    I will offer to You a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 50:14

      Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; 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 Calvin, Commentaries; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.