2:4 “ ‘When you present an offering of grain baked in an oven, it must be made of10 choice wheat flour baked into unleavened loaves11 mixed with olive oil or12 unleavened wafers smeared13 with olive oil.
tn The insertion of the words “it must be made of” is justified by the context and the expressed words “it shall be made of” in vv. 7 and 8 below.
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sn These “loaves” were either “ring-shaped” (HALOT317s.v.חַלָּה) or “perforated” (BDB 319s.v.חַלָּה; cf. J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:184).
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tnHeb “and.” Here the conjunction vav (ו) has an alternative sense (“or”).
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tn The Hebrew word מְשֻׁחִים (méshukhim) translated here as “smeared” is often translated “anointed” in other contexts. Cf. TEV “brushed with olive oil” (CEV similar).