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"`When anyone offers an offering of a meal-offering to Yahweh, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil on it, and put frankincense on it.
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Purity, Grace, and Fragrance
The meal offering's ingredients were deeply symbolic. Commentators explain that the 'fine flour' represented purity and the best of one's labor. The 'oil' was a symbol of God's grace and the anointing of the Holy Spirit. The 'frankincense' provided a sweet aroma, signifying the pleasing and acceptable nature of the offering to God.
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Leviticus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
A meat offering - Better translated in Leviticus 2:4 as an oblation of a meat offering. The relevant Hebrew terms are קרבן qorb…
19th Century
Anglican
A meat offering. —Better, an oblation of a meat offering, as the same two words are rendered in Leviticus 2:4;[Reference …
16th Century
Protestant
And when any will offer. In this chapter Moses prescribes the rules for those offerings to which the name of minha is specificall…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And when any man will offer a meat offering to the Lord , &c.] Or, "when a soul", and which Onkelos renders "a man",…
Meat-offerings may typify Christ, as presented to God for us, and as being the Bread of life to our souls; but they rather seem to denote our oblig…
