^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. ^2:5If your offering is a grain offering made on the griddle, it must be choice wheat flour mixed with olive oil, unleavened. ^2:6Crumble it in pieces¹⁴ and pour olive oil on it—it is a grain offering. ^2:7If your offering is a grain offering made in a pan,¹⁵ it must be made of choice wheat flour deep fried in olive oil.¹⁶

^2:8“ ‘You must bring the grain offering that must be made from these to the Lord. Present it to the priest,¹⁷ and he will bring it to the altar. ^2:9Then the priest must take up¹⁸ from the grain offering its memorial portion and offer it up in smoke on the altar—it is¹⁹ a gift of a soothing aroma to the Lord. ^2:10The remainder of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and to his sons—it is²⁰ most holy from the gifts of the Lord.

Additional Grain Offering Regulations

^2:11“ ‘No grain offering which you present to the Lord can be made with yeast,²¹ for you must not offer up in smoke any yeast or honey as a gift to the Lord.²²

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Footnotes

10 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.
11 These “loaves” were either “ring-shaped” ( חַלָּה) or “perforated” ( 319 חַלָּה; cf. J. Milgrom, Leviticus [], 1:).
12 Heb “and.” Here the conjunction vav (ו) has an alternative sense (“or”).
13 The Hebrew word מְשֻׁחִים (méshukhim) translated here as “smeared” is often translated “anointed” in other contexts. Cf. “brushed with olive oil” ( similar).
14 There is no vav (ו, “and”) in the at the beginning of v. 6 and the verb is pointed as an infinite absolute. The present translation has rendered it as an imperative (see §113.bb) and, therefore, the same for the following vav consecutive perfect verb (cf. “Crumble it and pour oil on it”; cf. also , , , and J. Milgrom, Leviticus [], 1:, but note the objections to this rendering in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [], ). The seems to suggest adding a vav (“and”) and pointing the verb as a consecutive perfect, which yields “and you shall break it in pieces” (cf. the textual note; Hartley, , prefers the rendering).
15 Heb “a grain offering of a pan”; cf. “fryingpan”; “pot”; “pan with a lid on it.”
16 Lev 7:9 makes it clear that one cooked “on” a griddle but “in” a pan. This suggests that the oil in the pan served for deep fat frying, hence the translation “deep fried in olive oil” (see, e.g., J. Milgrom, Leviticus [], 1:); cf. also .
17 There are several person, gender, and voice verb problems in this verse. First, the has “And you shall bring the grain offering,” but the and Qumran have “he” rather than “you” (J. Milgrom, Leviticus [], 1:). Second, the has “which shall be made” (i.e., the 3rd person masculine Niphal passive verb which, in fact, does not agree with its feminine subject, מִנְחָה, minkhah, “grain offering”), while the has “which he shall make” (3rd person Qal), thus agreeing with the 3rd person verb at the beginning of the verse (see above). Third, the has a 3rd person vav consecutive verb “and he shall present it to the priest,” which agrees with the but is not internally consistent with the 2nd person verb at the beginning of the verse in the . The editors conjecture that the latter might be repointed to an imperative verb yielding “present it to the priest.” This would require no change of consonants and corresponds to the person of the first verb in the . This solution has been tentatively accepted here (cf. also J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [], ), even though it neither resolves the gender problem of the second verb nor fits the general grammatical pattern of the chapter in the .
18 The Hebrew verb הֵרִים (herim, “to take up”; cf. “lift”) is commonly used for setting aside portions of an offering (see, e.g., Lev 4:8–10 and R. E. Averbeck, 4:). A number of English versions employ the more normal English idiom “take out” here (e.g., , ); cf. “remove.”
19 The words “it is” (הוּא, hu’) both here and in vv. 10 and 16 are not in the , but are assumed. (cf. vv. 2b and 3b and the there).
20 See the note on “it is” in v. .
21 Heb “Every grain offering which you offer to the Lord must not be made leavened.” The noun “leaven” is traditional in English versions (cf. , , , ), but “yeast” is more commonly used today.
22 A few Hebrew , , , and . have the verb “present” rather than “offer up in smoke,” but the is clearly correct. One could indeed present leavened and honey sweetened offerings as first fruit offerings, which were not burned on the altar (see v. 12 and the there), but they could not be offered up in fire on the altar. Cf. the ’s ambiguous “you must never use yeast or honey in food offered to the Lord.” Heb “for all leaven and all honey you must not offer up in smoke from it a gift to the Lord.”