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Leviticus 2

Leviticus 2 Summary, Context, and Full Chapter

Leviticus 2 gives instructions for grain offerings brought to the LORD. It explains the required ingredients, how the offering is presented, and what part is burned on the altar. The chapter highlights worship that is given with care, reverence, and thanksgiving.

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What happens in Leviticus 2?

This chapter describes several forms of grain offering, all made from fine flour and usually combined with oil and frankincense. The priest burns a memorial portion on the altar as a pleasing offering to the LORD, while the rest belongs to Aaron and his sons. The law allows different preparations, such as baked, griddle-cooked, or pan-cooked offerings, but forbids leaven and honey on the altar. Salt must be added to each offering, and firstfruits may be brought in a form of roasted new grain with oil and frankincense.

Leviticus 2 follows the instructions for burnt offerings in chapter 1 and continues the opening section of sacrificial law. It shifts from animals to grain, showing another way the people could honor God with gifts from their produce. These laws form part of Israel's worship life at the tabernacle and help define what it meant to bring something set apart to the LORD.

Themes to notice

  • Worship with giftsThe offering comes from daily provision and is brought to honor God with care and attention.
  • What is set apartOnly certain ingredients and portions are acceptable, showing that holy worship has clear boundaries.
  • Priestly serviceThe priests present the offering and receive the remainder, linking the gift to the work of the sanctuary.

Questions for Leviticus 2

  • Why does the chapter require fine flour, oil, frankincense, and salt for grain offerings?
  • What is the purpose of the memorial portion burned on the altar?
  • Why are leaven and honey excluded from offerings made by fire?

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Leviticus 2

Laws for Grain Offerings

1“When anyone brings a grain offering to the LORD, his offering must consist of fine flour. He is to pour olive oil on it, put frankincense on it,2and bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests. The priest shall take a handful of the flour and oil, together with all the frankincense, and burn this as a memorial portion on the altar, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.3The remainder of the grain offering shall belong to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the offerings made by fire to the LORD.

4Now 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.5If your offering is a grain offering prepared on a griddle, it must be unleavened bread made of fine flour mixed with oil.6Crumble it and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering.7If your offering is a grain offering cooked in a pan, it must consist of fine flour with oil.8When you bring to the LORD the grain offering made in any of these ways, it is to be presented to the priest, and he shall take it to the altar.9The priest is to remove the memorial portion from the grain offering and burn it on the altar as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.10But the remainder of the grain offering shall belong to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the offerings made by fire to the LORD.

11No grain offering that you present to the LORD may be made with leaven, for you are not to burn any leaven or honey as an offering made by fire to the LORD.12You may bring them to the LORD as an offering of firstfruits, but they are not to be offered on the altar as a pleasing aroma.13And you shall season each of your grain offerings with salt. You must not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering; you are to add salt to each of your offerings.

14If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer crushed heads of new grain roasted on the fire.15And you are to put oil and frankincense on it; it is a grain offering.16The priest shall then burn the memorial portion of the crushed grain and the oil, together with all its frankincense, as an offering made by fire to the LORD.

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