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That which is left of it shall Aaron and his sons eat: it shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place; in the court of the tent of meeting they shall eat it.
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A Meal, Not With a Meal
Multiple commentators clarify a key translation point. The verse doesn't mean the priests ate the offering with unleavened bread. Rather, the leftover portion of the grain offering was itself to be prepared and eaten unleavened. It was a sacred meal in its own right, not an accompaniment to another.
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Leviticus
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18th Century
Theologian
See Leviticus 2:1-10; Exodus 29:40–41.
Leviticus 6:16
With unleavened bread shall it be eaten —
19th Century
Bishop
With unleavened bread shall it be eaten.—Better, unleavened it is to be eaten. That is, the remainder of the mea…
16th Century
And the remainder thereof. He repeats what we have seen just before: that the remainder of those offerings, in which there was special hol…
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17th Century
Pastor
And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat , &c.] What quantity of fine flour the meat offering consiste…
Minister
The law of the burnt offerings required of the priests a great deal of care and work; the flesh was completely burnt, and the priests had nothing b…