Numbers 15:1-16

Meal-offerings and Libations. These are to accompany both private and public sacrifices, and are arranged according to a fixed scale as follows (ephah= c.1 bushel; hin= c.1½ gallon):

Meal. Oil. Wine. With every lamb 1/10 ephah. ¼ hin. ¼ hin. With every ram 2/10 ephah ⅓ hin. ⅓ hin. With every bullock 3/10 ephah. ½ hin. ½ hin. It will be seen that the amount in each case varies according to the size of the animal. Ezekiel, in his ideal arrangements for worship in the restored Jerusalem, has a similar scale (Ezekiel 46:5-7; Ezekiel 46:11; Ezekiel 46:14), but the amounts are larger, they are not graduated so carefully with respect to the size of the animal, and the libation of wine is not included. The present scale appears to be a later modification of Ezekiel's.

But while the fixing of definite amounts was probably a late development, the practice of offering meal, oil and wine as an accompaniment of sacrifice was ancient. Men offered to their God the same food which they enjoyed at their own table; cf. Judges 9:9; Judges 9:13 (oil and wine), 1 Samuel 1:24; 1 Samuel 10:3 (meal and wine), Hosea 9:4 (wine), Micah 6:7 (oil). Leviticus 2 (P) contains regulations for meal-offerings, without fixed amounts, but with the addition of salt and frankincense.