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New King James Version

Leviticus 2:14

"If you offer a grain offering of your firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits green heads of grain roasted on the fire, grain beaten from full heads.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - First Fruits;   Scofield Reference Index - Leaven;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Meat-Offerings;   Offerings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Bread;   Meats;   Sacrifice;   Wheat;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Food;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Firstfruits;   Mediator, Mediation;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Food;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Corn;   Elisha;   Food;   Meat;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Firstfruits;   Leviticus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Bread;   Food;   Mortar and Pestle;   Parched Corn;   Priests and Levites;   Propitiation;   Sacrifice and Offering;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Oil;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Fat;   Salt;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Meat meats;   Meat-offering;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Priest;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Tabernacle, the;   Priesthood, the;   Worship, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abib;   Bread;   Color;   First-Fruits;   Fresh;   Parched;   Sacrifice;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bread;   Corn;   Sacrifice;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"'If you offer a meal offering of first fruits to the LORD, you shall offer for the meal offering of your first fruits grain in the ear parched with fire, bruised grain of the fresh ear.
King James Version
And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the Lord , thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears.
Lexham English Bible
"‘And if you bring to Yahweh a grain offering of firstfruits, you must bring an ear of new grain roasted by fire, coarsely crushed ripe grain, as the grain offering of your firstfruits.
New Century Version
"‘If you bring a grain offering from the first harvest to the Lord , bring crushed heads of new grain roasted in the fire.
New English Translation
"‘If you present a grain offering of first ripe grain to the Lord , you must present your grain offering of first ripe grain as soft kernels roasted in fire—crushed bits of fresh grain.
Amplified Bible
'If you bring a grain offering of early ripened things to the LORD, you shall bring fresh heads of grain roasted in the fire, crushed grain of new growth, for the grain offering of your early ripened things.
New American Standard Bible
'Also if you bring a grain offering of early ripened things to the LORD, you shall bring fresh heads of grain roasted in the fire, crushed grain of new growth, for the grain offering of your early ripened produce.
Geneva Bible (1587)
If then thou offer a meate offring of thy first fruites vnto the Lorde, thou shalt offer for thy meate offering of thy first fruites eares of corne dryed by the fire, and wheate beaten out of the greene eares.
Legacy Standard Bible
‘Also if you bring near a grain offering of early ripened things to Yahweh, you shall bring near fresh heads of grain roasted in the fire, grits of new growth, for the grain offering of your early ripened things.
Contemporary English Version
Freshly cut grain, either roasted or coarsely ground, must be used when you offer the first part of your grain harvest.
Complete Jewish Bible
"‘If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to Adonai , you are to bring as the grain offering from your firstfruits kernels of grain from fresh ears, dry-roasted with fire.
Darby Translation
And if thou present an oblation of thy first-fruits to Jehovah, thou shalt present as the oblation of thy first-fruits green ears of corn roasted in fire, corn beaten out of full ears.
Easy-to-Read Version
"If you bring a grain offering from the first harvest to the Lord , you must bring roasted heads of grain. They must be crushed heads of fresh grain. This will be your grain offering from the first harvest.
English Standard Version
"If you offer a grain offering of firstfruits to the Lord , you shall offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits fresh ears, roasted with fire, crushed new grain.
George Lamsa Translation
And if you offer a meal offering of the first-fruits to the LORD, you shall offer for the meal offering a handful of pure ears of wheat parched by fire; wheat beaten out of full ears, pure, you shall offer of your first-fruits.
Good News Translation
When you bring to the Lord an offering of the first grain harvested, offer roasted grain or ground meal.
Christian Standard Bible®
“If you present a grain offering of firstfruits to the Lord, you are to present fresh heads of grain, crushed kernels, roasted on the fire, for your grain offering of firstfruits.
Literal Translation
And if you bring near a food offering of firstfruits to Jehovah, fresh ears roasted with fire, grains from a garden, you shall bring near your firstfruits for a food offering.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But yf thou wilt offre a meatofferynge of the first frutes vnto ye LORDE, then shalt thou drye that which is grene, by the fyre, & beate it small, and so offre the meatofferynge of thy first frutes.
American Standard Version
And if thou offer a meal-offering of first-fruits unto Jehovah, thou shalt offer for the meal-offering of thy first-fruits grain in the ear parched with fire, bruised grain of the fresh ear.
Bible in Basic English
And if you give a meal offering of first-fruits to the Lord, give, as your offering of first-fruits, new grain, made dry with fire, crushed new grain.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And yf thou offer a meate offeryng of the first fruites vnto the Lorde, thou shalt offer for the meate offeryng of thy first fruites, eares of corne dryed by the fire [euen] beaten wheate, of full eares.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And if thou bring a meal-offering of first-fruits unto the LORD, thou shalt bring for the meal-offering of thy first-fruits corn in the ear parched with fire, even groats of the fresh ear.
King James Version (1611)
And if thou offer a meat offering of thy first fruits vnto the Lord, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy first fruits, greene eares of corne dried by the fire, euen corne beaten out of full eares.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if thou wouldest offer a sacrifice of first-fruits to the Lord, it shall be new grains ground and roasted for the Lord; so shalt thou bring the sacrifice of the first-fruits.
English Revised Version
And if thou offer a meal offering of firstfruits unto the LORD, thou shalt offer for the meal offering of thy firstfruits corn in the ear parched with fire, bruised corn of the fresh ear.
Berean Standard Bible
If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer crushed heads of new grain roasted on the fire.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe if thou offrist a yifte of the firste thingis of thi fruytis to the Lord, of `eeris of corn yit grene, thou schalt seenge tho in fier, and thou schalt breke in the maner of seedis; and so thou schalt offre thi firste fruytis to the Lord,
Young's Literal Translation
`And if thou bring near a present of first-ripe [fruits] to Jehovah, -- of green ears, roasted with fire, beaten out [corn] of a fruitful field thou dost bring near the present of thy first-ripe [fruits],
Update Bible Version
And if you offer a meal-offering of first fruits to Yahweh, you shall offer for the meal-offering of your first fruits grain in the ear parched with fire, bruised grain of the fresh ear.
Webster's Bible Translation
And if thou shalt offer a meat-offering of thy first-fruits to the LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat-offering of thy first-fruits, green ears of corn dried by the fire, [even] corn beaten out of full ears.
World English Bible
"'If you offer a meal offering of first fruits to Yahweh, you shall offer for the meal offering of your first fruits grain in the ear parched with fire, bruised grain of the fresh ear.
New Living Translation
"If you present a grain offering to the Lord from the first portion of your harvest, bring fresh grain that is coarsely ground and roasted on a fire.
New Life Bible
‘If you give a grain gift of first-fruits to the Lord, give crushed new grain from new plants, dried by fire.
New Revised Standard
If you bring a grain offering of first fruits to the Lord , you shall bring as the grain offering of your first fruits coarse new grain from fresh ears, parched with fire.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, if thou wouldst bring near a meal-offering of first-ripe corn, unto Yahweh, of green ears roasted in fire crushed grain of garden-land, shalt thou bring near thy meal-offering of first-ripe corn.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But if thou offer a gift of the firstfruits of thy corn to the Lord, of the ears yet green, thou shalt dry it at the fire, and break it small like meal; and so shalt thou offer thy firstfruits to the Lord:
Revised Standard Version
"If you offer a cereal offering of first fruits to the LORD, you shall offer for the cereal offering of your first fruits crushed new grain from fresh ears, parched with fire.
THE MESSAGE
"If you present a Grain-Offering of firstfruits to God , bring crushed heads of the new grain roasted. Put oil and incense on it—it's a Grain-Offering. The priest will burn some of the mixed grain and oil with all the incense as a memorial—a Fire-Gift to God ."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Also if you bring a grain offering of early ripened things to the LORD, you shall bring fresh heads of grain roasted in the fire, grits of new growth, for the grain offering of your early ripened things.

Contextual Overview

11 "No grain offering which you bring to the LORD shall be made with leaven, for you shall burn no leaven nor any honey in any offering to the LORD made by fire. 12 As for the offering of the firstfruits, you shall offer them to the LORD, but they shall not be burned on the altar for a sweet aroma. 13 And every offering of your grain offering you shall season with salt; you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your grain offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt. 14 "If you offer a grain offering of your firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits green heads of grain roasted on the fire, grain beaten from full heads. 15 And you shall put oil on it, and lay frankincense on it. It is a grain offering. 16 Then the priest shall burn the memorial portion: part of its beaten grain and part of its oil, with all the frankincense, as an offering made by fire to the LORD.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a meat offering: These first fruits seem to have been the voluntary oblation brought by individuals, of the finest ears of corn out of the field, before the harvest was ripe. Leviticus 22:29, Leviticus 23:10, Leviticus 23:14-17, Leviticus 23:20, Genesis 4:3, Numbers 28:2, Deuteronomy 26:2, Proverbs 3:9, Proverbs 3:10, Isaiah 53:2-10, Malachi 1:11, 1 Corinthians 15:20, Revelation 14:4

corn beaten: 2 Kings 4:42

Reciprocal: Leviticus 23:13 - the meat Numbers 15:20 - the heave offering Numbers 18:12 - the firstfruits Deuteronomy 1:2 - unto

Cross-References

Genesis 10:11
From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
Genesis 10:22
The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
Genesis 15:18
On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: "To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates--
Genesis 25:18
(They dwelt from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt as you go toward Assyria.) He died in the presence of all his brethren.
Deuteronomy 1:7
Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places in the plain, [fn] in the mountains and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates.
Deuteronomy 11:24
Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the Western Sea, [fn] shall be your territory.
Daniel 10:4
Now on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, that is, the Tigris, [fn]
Revelation 9:14
saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the Lord,.... This, according to Aben Ezra, was not any of the offerings of the firstfruits, which they were obliged to, as at the passover or pentecost, or feast of tabernacles, but a free will offering; but Jarchi thinks it is to be understood of the meat offering of the Omer, Leviticus 23:13 and so Gersom, which was offered up on the sixteenth of Nisan; and this is the general sense of the Jewish writers b:

thou shalt bring for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire; these were ears of barley, which began to be ripe in the month Abib, which month had its name from hence, and is the word here used; these were dried by the fire, being green and moist, or otherwise they could not have been ground; for, according to Gersom, these were afterwards ground into fine flour:

[even] corn beaten out of full ears; and so made the finest flour: the firstfruits were a type of Christ, who is so called, 1 Corinthians 15:23 the beating of the ears of corn, and drying of them by the fire, and the grinding of them, denoted the sufferings of Christ.

b Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Menachot, c. 10. sect. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Green ears of corn - Rather, “fresh ears of corn;” that is, just-ripe grain, freshly gathered. Parched grain, such as is here spoken of, is a common article of food in Syria and Egypt, and was very generally eaten in ancient times.

Beaten out - Not rubbed out by the hands, as described in Luke 6:1, but bruised or crushed so as to form groats.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 2:14. Green ears of corn dried by the fire — Green or half-ripe ears of wheat parched with fire is a species of food in use among the poor people of Palestine and Egypt to the present day. As God is represented as keeping a table among his people, (for the tabernacle was his house, where he had the golden table, shewbread, c.,) so he represents himself as partaking with them of all the aliments that were in use, and even sitting down with the poor to a repast on parched corn! We have already seen that these green ears were presented as a sort of eucharistical offering for the blessings of seed time, and the prospect of a plentiful harvest.

Leviticus 2:14- : several other examples might be added here, but they are not necessary.

The command to offer salt with every oblation, and which was punctually observed by the Jews, will afford the pious reader some profitable reflections. It is well known that salt has two grand properties.

1. It seasons and renders palatable the principal ailments used for the support of life.

2. It prevents putrefaction and decay.

The covenant of God, that is, his agreement with his people, is called a covenant of salt, to denote as we have seen above, its stable undecaying nature, as well as to point out its importance and utility in the preservation of the life of the soul. The grace of God by Christ Jesus is represented under the emblem of salt, (see Mark 9:49; Ephesians 4:29; Colossians 4:6), because of its relishing, nourishing, and preserving quality. Without it no offering, no sacrifice, no religious service, no work even of charity and mercy, can be acceptable in the sight of God. In all things we must come unto the Father THROUGH HIM. And from none of our sacrifices or services must this salt of the covenant of our God be lacking.


 
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