Category:Cereal Offering

Cereal Offering - Instructions for people bringing cereal offerings are primarily found in Leviticus 2. Other instructions for the priests are found in Leviticus 6 and 7

Leviticus Chapter 2
Of offerings of flour, and firstfruits.

2:1. When any one shall offer an oblation of sacrifice to the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour: and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense,

'''2:2. and shall bring it to the sons of Aaron the priests. And one of them shall take a handful of the flour and oil, and all the frankincense; and shall put it a memorial upon the altar for a most sweet savor to the Lord.'''

2:3. The remnant of the sacrifice shall be Aaron's, and his sons', holy of holies of the offerings of the Lord.

Holy of holies. . .That is, most holy, as being dedicated to God, and set aside by his ordinance for the use of his priests.

2:4. But when you offer a sacrifice baked in the oven of flour, to wit, loaves without leaven, tempered with oil, and unleavened wafers, anointed with oil:

2:5. If your oblation be from the fryingpan, of flour tempered with oil, and without leaven:

2:6. You shall divide it into little pieces, and shall pour oil upon it.

2:7. If the sacrifice be from the gridiron, in like manner the flour shall be tempered with oil.

2:8. When you offer it to the Lord, you shall deliver it to the hands of the priest.

2:9. When he has offered it, he shall take a memorial out of the sacrifice, and burn it upon the altar for a sweet savor to the Lord.

2:10. Whatever is left, shall be Aaron's, and his sons': holy of holies of the offerings of the Lord.

2:11. Every oblation that is offered to the Lord shall be made without leaven: neither shall any leaven or honey be burnt in the sacrifice to the Lord.

2:12. You shall offer only the firstfruits of them and gifts: but they shall not be put upon the altar, for a savor of sweetness.

'''2:13. Whatever sacrifice you offer, you shall season it with salt: neither shall you take away the salt of the covenant of your God from your sacrifice. In all your oblations you shall offer salt.'''

Salt. . .In every sacrifice salt was to be used, which is an emblem of wisdom and discretion, without which none of our performances are agreeable to God.

2:14. But if you offer a gift of the firstfruits of your corn to the Lord, of the ears yet green, you shall dry it at the fire, and break it small like meal; and so shall you offer your firstfruits to the Lord:

2:15. Pouring oil upon it and putting on frankincense, because it is the oblation of the Lord.

2:16. Whereof the priest shall burn for a memorial of the gift, part of the corn broken small and of the oil, and all the frankincense.

Nave's Topical Bible
--excerpt from Nave's Topical Bible

Accompanied with leaven (yeast)
Leviticus 7:13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.

Amos 4:5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

Without leaven (yeast)
Exodus 23:18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.

Exodus 34:25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the Passover be left unto the morning.