³ And ^[a]in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit ^(A)of the ground to the Lord.

^12 (A)“All the ^[a]best of the oil, all the best of the new wine and the grain, ^(B)their firstfruits which they offer to the Lord, I have given them to you.

The Grain Offering

2 ‘When anyone offers ^(A)a grain offering to the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour. And he shall pour oil on it, and put ^(B)frankincense on it. ² He shall bring it to Aaron’s sons, the priests, one of whom shall take from it his handful of fine flour and oil with all the frankincense. And the priest shall burn ^(C)it as a memorial on the altar, an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the Lord. ^3 (D)The rest of the grain offering shall be Aaron’s and his ^(E)sons’. ^(F)It is most holy of the offerings to the Lord made by fire.

⁴ ‘And if you bring as an offering a grain offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers ^(G)anointed^[a] with oil. ⁵ But if your offering is a grain offering baked in a ^[b]pan, it shall be of fine flour, unleavened, mixed with oil. ⁶ You shall break it in pieces and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering.

⁷ ‘If your offering is a grain offering baked in a ^(H)covered pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil. ⁸ You shall bring the grain offering that is made of these things to the Lord. And when it is presented to the priest, he shall bring it to the altar. ⁹ Then the priest shall take from the grain offering ^(I)a memorial portion, and burn it on the altar. It is an ^(J)offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the Lord. ¹⁰ And ^(K)what is left of the grain offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’. It is most holy of the offerings to the Lord made by fire.

¹¹ ‘No grain offering which you bring to the Lord shall be made with ^(L)leaven, for you shall burn no leaven nor any honey in any offering to the Lord made by fire.

⁷ And it happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.

⁶ But during all this I was not in Jerusalem, ^(A)for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I had returned to the king. Then after certain days I obtained leave from the king,