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Good News Translation

Exodus 29:2

Use the best wheat flour, but no yeast, and make some bread with olive oil, some without it, and some in the form of thin cakes brushed with oil.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blood;   Bread;   Priest;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bread;   Flour;   Oil;   Olive Oil;   Unleavened Bread;   Wafers;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Bread;   Ephod, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Wafer;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Food;   Oil;   Priest;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Bread, Bread of Presence;   Jesus Christ, Name and Titles of;   Worship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bread;   Cake;   Wafers;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Priest;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bull;   Dedicate, Dedication;   Flour;   High Priest;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Bread;   Leviticus;   Meals;   Priests and Levites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Bread;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Temper, to;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Flour;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - High priest;   Priest;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Naz'arite,;   Oil;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Flour;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Priesthood, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bread;   Meals;   Oil;   Sacrifice;   Temper;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Cookery;   Maẓẓah;   Priestly Code;   Sidra;   Urim and Thummim;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
matzah, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil: you shall make them of fine wheat flour.
King James Version
And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.
Lexham English Bible
and unleavened bread and unleavened, ring-shaped bread cakes mixed with oil, and wafers of unleavened breads smeared with oil. You will make them with finely milled wheat flour,
New Century Version
Use fine wheat flour without yeast to make bread, cakes mixed with olive oil, and wafers brushed with olive oil.
New English Translation
and bread made without yeast, and perforated cakes without yeast mixed with oil, and wafers without yeast spread with oil—you are to make them using fine wheat flour.
Amplified Bible
and unleavened bread and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil; you shall make them of fine wheat flour.
New American Standard Bible
and unleavened bread and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil; you shall make them of fine wheat flour.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And vnleauened bread and cakes vnleauened tempered with oyle, and wafers vnleauened anoynted with oyle: (of fine wheate flowre shalt thou make them)
Legacy Standard Bible
and unleavened bread and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil; you shall make them of fine wheat flour.
Contemporary English Version
Then from your finest flour make three batches of dough without yeast. Shape some of it into larger loaves, some into smaller loaves mixed with olive oil, and the rest into thin wafers brushed with oil.
Complete Jewish Bible
also matzah, matzah cakes mixed with olive oil, and matzah wafers spread with oil — all made from fine wheat flour;
Darby Translation
and unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil—of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then use fine wheat flour without yeast to make bread. And use the same things to make cakes mixed with olive oil. Make small thin cakes spread with oil.
English Standard Version
and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil. You shall make them of fine wheat flour.
George Lamsa Translation
And unleavened bread and unleavened cakes mixed with oil and unleavened wafers mixed with oil; of fine wheat flour shall you make them.
Christian Standard Bible®
with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers coated with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,
Literal Translation
and unleavened bread , and unleavened cakes poured over with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil; you shall make them of fine wheat flour.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
vnleuended bred, & vnleuended cakes myxte wt oyle, and wafers of swete bred tempered wt oyle: Of wheate floure shalt thou make them all,
American Standard Version
and unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened mingled with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of fine wheaten flour shalt thou make them.
Bible in Basic English
And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes on which oil has been put, made of the best bread-meal;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And vnleauened bread, and cakes vnleauened tempered with oyle, and wafers vnleauened annoynted with oyle: of wheaten floure shalt thou make the.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened mingled with oil, and wafers unleavened spread with oil; of fine wheaten flour shalt thou make them.
King James Version (1611)
And vnleauened bread, and cakes unleauened, tempered with oyle, and wafers vnleauened, annointed with oile: of wheaten flowre shalt thou make them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and unleavened loaves kneaded with oil, and unleavened cakes anointed with oil: thou shalt make them of fine flour of wheat.
English Revised Version
and unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened mingled with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of fine wheaten flour shalt thou make them.
Berean Standard Bible
along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and therf looues, and a cake with out sour dow, whiche be spreynt to gidere with oile, and therf paast sodun in watir, `bawmed, ether fried, with oile; thou schalt make alle thingis of whete flour,
Young's Literal Translation
and bread unleavened, and cakes unleavened anointed with oil, of fine wheaten flour thou dost make them,
Update Bible Version
and unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil: of fine wheat flour you shall make them.
Webster's Bible Translation
And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil; [of] wheat flour shalt thou make them.
World English Bible
unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil: you shall make them of fine wheat flour.
New King James Version
and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil (you shall make them of wheat flour).
New Living Translation
Then, using choice wheat flour and no yeast, make loaves of bread, thin cakes mixed with olive oil, and wafers spread with oil.
New Life Bible
Have bread without yeast, and bread mixed with oil, and hard bread made without yeast and spread with oil. Make them of fine grain flour.
New Revised Standard
and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil. You shall make them of choice wheat flour.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and bread unleavened and cakes unleavened with oil poured over, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil, - of fine wheaten meal, shalt thou make them;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And unleavened bread, and a cake without leaven, tempered with oil, wafers also unleavened, anointed with oil: thou shalt make them all of wheaten flour.
Revised Standard Version
and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil. You shall make them of fine wheat flour.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and unleavened bread and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil; you shall make them of fine wheat flour.

Contextual Overview

1 "This is what you are to do to Aaron and his sons to dedicate them as priests in my service. Take one young bull and two rams without any defects. 2 Use the best wheat flour, but no yeast, and make some bread with olive oil, some without it, and some in the form of thin cakes brushed with oil. 3 Put them in a basket and offer them to me when you sacrifice the bull and the two rams. 4 "Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the Tent of my presence, and have them take a ritual bath. 5 Then dress Aaron in the priestly garments—the shirt, the robe that goes under the ephod, the ephod, the breastpiece, and the belt. 6 Put the turban on him and tie on it the sacred sign of dedication engraved ‘Dedicated to the Lord .' 7 Then take the anointing oil, pour it on his head, and anoint him. 8 "Bring his sons and put shirts on them; 9 put sashes around their waists and tie caps on their heads. That is how you are to ordain Aaron and his sons. They and their descendants are to serve me as priests forever. 10 "Bring the bull to the front of the Tent of my presence and tell Aaron and his sons to put their hands on its head.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

bread: Exodus 12:8, Leviticus 2:4, Leviticus 6:20-22, Leviticus 8:2, 1 Corinthians 5:7

tempered: Exodus 29:23, Leviticus 2:4, Leviticus 2:5, Leviticus 2:15, Leviticus 7:10, Numbers 6:15

wafers: Leviticus 7:12, Leviticus 8:26, Numbers 6:15, Numbers 6:19

Reciprocal: Exodus 29:32 - and the bread Leviticus 10:12 - Take Judges 9:9 - wherewith

Cross-References

Genesis 24:11
When he arrived, he made the camels kneel down at the well outside the city. It was late afternoon, the time when women came out to get water.
Genesis 24:13
Here I am at the well where the young women of the city will be coming to get water.
Genesis 29:6
"Is he well?" he asked. "He is well," they answered. "Look, here comes his daughter Rachel with his flock."
Genesis 29:7
Jacob said, "Since it is still broad daylight and not yet time to bring the flocks in, why don't you water them and take them back to pasture?"
Genesis 29:15
Laban said to Jacob, "You shouldn't work for me for nothing just because you are my relative. How much pay do you want?"
Genesis 29:16
Laban had two daughters; the older was named Leah, and the younger Rachel.
Psalms 23:2
He lets me rest in fields of green grass and leads me to quiet pools of fresh water.
Isaiah 49:10
they will never be hungry or thirsty. Sun and desert heat will not hurt them, for they will be led by one who loves them. He will lead them to springs of water.
John 4:6
Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired out by the trip, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
John 4:14
but those who drink the water that I will give them will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give them will become in them a spring which will provide them with life-giving water and give them eternal life."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And unleavened bread,.... Such as used to be eaten at the time of the passover, and this being distinguished from cakes and wafers, after mentioned, shows that this was bread of a larger size, a loaf or loaves of bread, see Exodus 29:3

and cakes unleavened, tempered with oil; these were made of flour mixed with oil, but without leaven, and were a lesser and thinner sort of bread than the former:

and wafers unleavened, anointed with oil; with oil olive, the best of oil, as the Targum of Jonathan, and so Aben Ezra; these were a thinner sort of bread still, somewhat like our pancakes; and they were anointed with oil after the baking of them, and in the form of the Greek χ, "chi", as Jarchi says, or of a St. Andrew's or Burgundian cross:

of wheaten flour shall thou make them; of the finest of the wheat, for these were to be the food of Aaron and his sons, who were now to be invested with an high and honourable office, and were to live according to the dignity of it; and these being all unleavened, may denote that sincerity, simplicity, and integrity that ought to be found in them, in the discharge of their office, and which were in Christ in full perfection; as well as soundness in doctrine, life, and manners, being free from all leaven of false doctrine, hypocrisy, and malice; and likewise what is expected of the same kind in all the saints, who, under the Gospel dispensation, are all of them priests unto God, and whose food is the finest of the wheat, Christ the bread of life.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The consecration of the priests. See the notes to Lev. 8–9.

Exodus 29:4

Door of the tabernacle - Entrance of the tent. See Leviticus 8:3.

Exodus 29:27

The “waving” was the more solemn process of the two: it was a movement several times repeated, while “heaving” was simply a “lifting up” once.

Exodus 29:33

A stranger - One of another family, i. e. in this case, one not of the family of Aaron.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 29:2. Unleavened breadThree kinds of bread as to its form are mentioned here, but all unleavened:

1. מצות matstsoth, unleavened bread, no matter in what shape. See Exodus 12:8.

2. חלת challoth, cakes, pricked or perforated, as the root implies.

3. רקיקי rekikey, an exceeding thin cake, from רק rak, to be attenuated, properly enough translated wafer. The manner in which these were prepared is sufficiently plain from the text, and probably these were the principal forms in which flour was prepared for household use during their stay in the wilderness.

These were all waved before the Lord, Exodus 29:24, as an acknowledgment that the bread that sustains the body, as well as the mercy which saves the soul, comes from God alone.


 
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