Exodus 29:2

29:2 and ¹  bread made without yeast, and perforated cakes without yeast mixed with oil, and wafers without yeast spread ²  with oil – you are to make them using ³  fine wheat flour.

Exodus 29:24-25

29:24 You are to put all these ⁴  in Aaron’s hands ⁵  and in his sons’ hands, and you are to wave them as a wave offering ⁶  before the Lord. 29:25 Then you are to take them from their hands and burn ⁷  them ⁸  on the altar for a burnt offering, for a soothing aroma before the Lord. It is an offering made by fire to the Lord.

¹ sn This will be for the minkhah (מִנְחָה) offering (Lev 2), which was to accompany the animal sacrifices.

² tn Or “anointed” (KJV, ASV).

³ tn The “fine flour” is here an adverbial accusative, explaining the material from which these items were made. The flour is to be finely sifted, and from the wheat, not the barley, which was often the material used by the poor. Fine flour, no leaven, and perfect animals, without blemishes, were to be gathered for this service.

⁴ tn Heb “the whole” or “the all.”

⁵ tn Heb “palms.”

⁶ tn The “wave offering” is תְּנוּפָה (tÿnufah); it is, of course, cognate with the verb, but an adverbial accusative rather than the direct object. In Lev 23 this seems to be a sacrificial gesture of things that are for the priests – but they present them first to Yahweh and then receive them back from him. So the waving is not side to side, but forward to Yahweh and then back to the priest. Here it is just an induction into that routine, since this is the ordination of the priests and the gifts are not yet theirs. So this will all be burned on the altar.

⁷ tn “turn to sweet smoke.”

⁸ tn “them” has been supplied.