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2 ‎[1] **When a person brings a meal offering to the Lord, of high-quality flour his offering shall be. He shall pour oil upon it and place frankincense on it. **
‎[2] **He shall bring it to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and he, **the priest, **shall take from there his handful from its high-quality flour and from its oil. **The flour and oil are mixed together, and the oil is absorbed by the flour, 19 and it is therefore possible to hold the oil in one’s hand. The priest separates the handful of flour and oil from the meal offering, and the handful is taken together **with all its frankincense **. 20 **The priest shall burn its memorial portion, **which consists of the handful of flour and oil and all of the frankincense, **on the altar **as **a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the Lord. **
‎[3] **The remnant of the meal offering, **everything apart from the small portion that was burned on the altar, **shall be for Aaron and for his sons; it is a sacred sacrament from the fire offerings of the Lord. **Although this offering is not burned on the altar in its entirety like the burnt offering, it is an important offering, considered to be of the most sacred order, and its degree of sanctity is equivalent to that of the burnt offering.
‎[4] Apart from the aforementioned type of meal offering, in which the flour and oil are mixed together to form a dough, there are additional types of meal offerings:
**When you bring a meal offering baked in the oven **as a gift offering, **it shall be unleavened loaves of high-quality **wheat **flour mixed with oil **, 21 **or unleavened wafers smeared with oil **. 22
‎[5] There is another type of meal offering:
**If your offering is a meal offering **fried in oil **on a **flat **pan **, 23 it shall also be made **of high-quality flour, mixed with oil, **and **it shall **also **be unleavened bread. **
‎[6] **Break it into **small **pieces, and pour oil on it **a second time. 24 **It is a meal offering, **and this is the manner of preparing all meal offerings. 25
‎[7] **If your offering is a meal offering **deep-fried **in a deep pan, it shall **also **be prepared of high-quality flour with oil. **
‎[8] The rites of the aforementioned types of meal offerings are identical:
26 **You shall bring the meal offering that is prepared of these, **either just mixed with oil, baked in an oven, or fried, **to the Lord. He, **the individual bringing the offering, **shall bring it to the priest, and he, **the priest, **shall bring it to the altar. **As part of the ritual, the priest is required to bring the entire meal offering in its sacred vessel to the altar.
‎[9] **The priest shall separate from the meal offering its memorial portion, **the handful and the frankincense, **and he shall burn it upon the altar, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the Lord. **
‎[10] **The remnant of the meal offering shall be for Aaron and for his sons; it is **considered **a sacred sacrament from the fire offerings of the Lord, **even though it is eaten by the priests rather than being burned on the altar.
‎[11] **All meal offerings that you shall bring to the Lord shall not be prepared as leavened bread, for all leaven and all honey, ** the sweet liquid that seeps out of various fruits, 27 **you shall not burn as a fire offering to the Lord. **
‎[12] Nevertheless, there are instances where leaven and honey are presented as offerings:
**As an offering of first fruits you shall bring them to the Lord. **The two loaves brought on Shavuot, which constituted the first offering brought from the new crop of wheat, were baked as leavened bread (23:17), and the first fruits were brought near to the altar despite the fact that they contained fruit juice. 28 Apart from the first fruits, no fruit were brought to the Temple. These offerings shall be brought to the Temple, **but on the altar they shall not ascend for a pleasing aroma; **they are not burned on the altar.
‎[13] **All your meal offerings you shall salt with salt; and you shall not withhold the salt of the covenant of your God from upon your meal offering. **Moreover, **on all your offerings you shall bring salt, **not just on meal offerings.
‎[14] **If, **or when, **you bring a meal offering of first fruits to the Lord, **it shall be made of **just-ripened **produce, 29 **roasted in fire, ground of a moist, **soft **kernel. **In this manner **you shall bring the meal offering of your first fruits. **According to the interpretation of the Sages, this is referring to the *omer *offering, the meal offering of barley brought on the sixteenth of Nissan, which is the first meal offering brought from the new crop of produce. 30
‎[15] **You shall put oil on it, and place frankincense on it. It is a meal offering, **and this is the manner of preparing a meal offering (see verse 6).
‎[16] **The priest shall burn its memorial portion, **consisting of a handful **from its flour and from its oil, with all its frankincense; it is a fire offering to the Lord **. 31
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