No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.
No leaven, nor any honey. Leaven [being the symbol of kakia (G2549) and poneeria (G4189)] was not allowable in meat offerings, the value of which, being thank offerings, consisted in their being expressive of eilikrineia (G1505), sincerity and aleetheia (G225), truth; azuma (G106), unleaven was emblematic of these qualities (1 Corinthians 5:8). Nothing sweet or sour was to be offered. In the warm climates of the East leavened bread soon spoils; and hence, it was regarded as the emblem of hypocrisy or corruption. Some, however, think that the chief reason of the prohibition was that leaven and honey were used in the idolatrous rites of the pagan.