Leviticus 2:14-16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bible Comments

Meal Offering as Firstfruits. These are not to be offered raw, but if from garden growth (RV, fresh ear) in the form of bruised grits. The ritual is as in Leviticus 2:1-3. The part of it which is burnt is called a memorial; this term is regularly connected with the term offering made by fire. Its original is probably the ritual calling upon the name of Yahweh (calling the sacrifice to His remembrance) which would accompany the actual burning, the culminating point of the whole rite.

Leviticus 2:14-16

14 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.

15 And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is a meat offering.

16 And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of the beaten corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.