Meat Offerings

Leviticus 2:1-16

Grain Offerings:

1. Must be of fine flour.
   
2. Mingled with olive oil.
   
3. Put frankincense on it.
   
4. Priest must burn a handful of flour, oil, and frankincense on the altar for a sweet savour to YHWH
   
5. The remnant of the meat offering is for the high priest and the sons of Zadok. 
   
6. It is most holy of the offerings.
   

Meat Offering Oblations:

Oblation of meat offering baked in the oven:

1. Unleavened cakes of fine flour
   
2. Must be mixed with oil
   
3. Or unleavened wafers anointed with oil
   

Oblation of meat offering baked in a pan:

1. Must be of fine flour unleavened 
   
2. Mixed with oil
   
3. Offering must be parted in pieces with oil poured thereon 
   

Oblation of meat offering baked in the fryingpan:

1. Must be made of fine flour with oil
   

Meat Offering Regulations:

1. All oblations of meat offerings must be brought to the priest. 
   
2. Priest must burn a handful of the oblation on the altar for a sweet savour to YHWH.
   
3. That which is left of the offering is for the high priest and his sons.
   
4. No meat offering which is brought to YHWH shall be made with leaven.
   
5. No honey (syrup sweeteners) may be burned in any offering to YHWH made by fire.
   
6. Every oblation of meat offerings must be seasoned with salt.
   
7. Must be eaten in the holy place.
   
8. All males of the sons of Zadok must eat it, everyone the same portion. 
   
9. All meat offerings for the priest must be fully burnt, it must not be eaten.
   

Offerings of Firstfruits:

1. Offerings of firstfruits must not be burned on the altar. 
   
2. Must offer green ears of corn dried by fire, even corn beaten out of full ears.
   
3. Must put oil on it.
   
4. Must put frankincense on it.
   
5. Priest must burn part of the beaten corn, part oil, and part frankincense over fire (not the altar) unto YHWH.
   

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