Leviticus 2-3

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

2 When anyone offers a cereal offering to the Lord, it shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil over it and lay frankincense on it.

² And he shall bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests. Out of it he shall take a handful of the fine flour and oil, with all its frankincense, and the priest shall burn this on the altar as the memorial portion of it, an offering made by fire, of a sweet and satisfying fragrance to the Lord.

³ What is left of the cereal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’; it is a most holy part of the offerings made to the Lord by fire.

⁴ When you bring as an offering cereal baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers spread with oil.

⁵ If your offering is cereal baked on a griddle, 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 cereal offering.

⁷ And if your offering is cereal cooked in the frying pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.

⁸ And you shall bring the cereal offering that is made of these things to the Lord; it shall be presented to the priest, and he shall bring it to the [bronze] altar.

⁹ The priest shall take from the cereal offering its memorial portion and burn it on the altar, an offering made by fire, a sweet and satisfying fragrance to the Lord.

¹⁰ What is left of the cereal offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’; it is a most holy part of the offerings made to the Lord by fire.

¹¹ No cereal offering that you bring to the Lord shall be made with leaven, for you shall burn no leaven or honey in any offering made by fire to the Lord.^(A)

¹² As an offering of firstfruits you may offer leaven and honey to the Lord, but ^[a]they shall not be burned on the altar for a sweet odor [to the Lord, for their aid to fermentation is symbolic of corruption in the human heart].

¹³ Every cereal offering you shall season with salt [symbol of preservation]; neither shall you allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your cereal offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.^(B)

¹⁴ If you offer a cereal offering of your firstfruits to the Lord, you shall offer for it of your firstfruits grain in the ear parched with fire, bruised and crushed grain out of the fresh and fruitful ear.

¹⁵ And you shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it; it is a cereal offering.

¹⁶ The priest shall burn as its memorial portion part of the bruised and crushed grain of it and part of the oil of it, with all its frankincense; it is an offering made by fire to the Lord.

3 If a man’s offering is a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offers an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the Lord.

² He shall lay [both] his ^[b]hands upon the head of his offering and kill it at the door of the Tent of Meeting; and Aaron’s sons the priests shall throw the blood against the altar round about.

³ And from the sacrifice of the peace offering, an offering made by fire to the Lord, he shall offer the fat that covers and is upon the entrails,

⁴ And the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the appendage of the liver which he shall take away with the kidneys.

⁵ Aaron’s sons shall burn it all on the altar upon the burnt offering which is on the wood on the fire, an offering made by fire, of a sweet and satisfying odor to the Lord.

⁶ If his peace offering to the Lord is an animal from the flock, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.

⁷ If he offers a lamb, then he shall offer it before the Lord.

⁸ He shall lay [both] his hands on the head of his offering and kill it before the Tent of Meeting; and Aaron’s sons shall throw its blood around against the altar.

⁹ And he shall offer from the peace offering as an offering made by fire to the Lord: the fat of it, the fat tail as a whole, taking it off close to the backbone, and the fat that covers and is upon the entrails,

¹⁰ And the two kidneys, and the fat on them at the loins, and the appendage of the liver, which he shall take away with the kidneys.

¹¹ The priest shall burn it upon the altar, a food offering made by fire to the Lord.

¹² If [a man’s] offering is a goat, he shall offer it before the Lord,

¹³ And lay his hands upon its head, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall throw its blood against the altar round about.

¹⁴ Then he shall offer from it as his offering made by fire to the Lord: the fat that covers and is on the entrails,

¹⁵ And the two kidneys and the fat that is on them at the loins, and the appendage of the liver which he shall take away with the kidneys.

¹⁶ The priest shall burn them on the altar as food, offered by fire, for a sweet and satisfying fragrance. All the fat is the Lord’s.

¹⁷ It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.