Genesis 18:6

into the tent unto Sarah Sarah does not appear before the strangers. She is occupied with the baking. Abraham and his servant are responsible for the selection and killing of a calf, the cooking of the meat, and the procuring of butter and milk from the herd. A meal in which meat is provided is a rarity in a Bedouin's life, and is the sign of the offering of hospitality.

three measures of fine meal A "measure" is a seah, or one-third of an ephah. The amount, therefore, represented by three seahswas one ephah. It is the same quantity mentioned by our Lord in Matthew 13:33, "the kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal." The seahcontained nearly a peck and a half.

fine meal Two words are here used, ḳemaḥand sôleth, meaning "meal," "fine flour."

cakes These would be baked on flat hot stones placed in the clay oven, or in the hot ashes which were sometimes heaped up over them; hence LXX ἐγκρυφίαι, Lat. panes subcinericii. Cf. 1 Kings 19:6.