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Leviticus 2

Chapter 2

This chapter switches to the grain offering.  Is this a separate kind of offering, contrasted with the burnt offering, or are we still going down the list of things that can be offered as a burnt offering?  In vs 2 this is referred to also as a food offering, as was the burnt. Only a portion of grain offerings, fine flour, were burnt, and the burnt part was referred to as its memorial.  Aaron and his sons got the rest, and it is called "a most holy part" of the food offering.

You could also go ahead and bake the grain offering, and bring it already prepared.  There were several acceptable ways to prepare this, all listed.  Only the memorial portion of this kind of offering was offered and Aaron and his sons received the rest.  No leaven or honey with the grain offering.


This very interesting verse:

You shall season all your grain offerings with salt. You shall not let the salt of the covenant with your God be missing from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.

Leviticus 2:13 ESV

I need to do some research on ancient "covenants of salt".  There has to be a lot buried in this simple phrase.


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