Leviticus 2:14

_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._ A meat offering of thy first-fruits. From the mention of green ears, this seems to have been a voluntary offering before the harvest-the ears being prepared in the favorite way of Eastern people, by parching or roasting them at the fire, and then beating them out for use. The grits or polenta of early grain (cf. Leviticus 23:14; Ruth 2:14; 1 Samuel 17:17; 1 Samuel 25:18;...

14._And if thou offer a meat-offering. _This offering is different from that of the first-fruits, since it was voluntary, whereas the first-fruits were paid in obedience to the enactment of the Law. But if any one chose to add anything to the first-fruits of his new corn, Moses lays down the rule, that the ears should be dried in the fire, so that they might be more easily pounded, and so might be burnt mixed with oil and frankincense; for so I interpret his words, that he means the same thing by “ears of corn dried by the fire,” and “corn beaten out of full ears.” He requires full ears, that the people may select them, and not offer anything poor or stunted....

12-16 Salt is required in all the offerings. God hereby intimates to them that their sacrifices, in themselves, were unsavoury. All religious services must be seasoned with grace. Christianity is the salt of the earth. Directions are given about offering their first-fruits at harvest. If a man, with a thankful sense of God's goodness in giving him a plentiful crop, was disposed to present an offering to God, let him bring the first ripe and full ears. Whatever was brought to God must be the best in its kind, though it were but green ears of corn. Oil and frankincense must be put upon it. Wisdom and humility soften and sweeten the spirits and services of young people, and their green ears of corn shall be acceptable. God takes delight in the first ripe fruits of the Spirit, and the expressions of early piety and devotion. Holy love to God is the fire by which all our offerings must be ma...

Verse Leviticus 2:14. _GREEN EARS OF CORN DRIED BY THE FIRE_] Green or half-ripe ears of wheat parched with fire is a species of food in use among the poor people of Palestine and Egypt to the present day. As God is represented as _keeping a table_ among his people, (for the tabernacle was his _house_, where he had the golden table, shewbread, c.,) so he represents himself as _partaking_ with them of all the aliments that were in use, and even sitting down with the _poor_ to a repast on _parched corn_! We have already seen that these green ears were presented as a sort of eucharistical offering for the blessings of seed time, and the prospect of a plentiful harvest. See Clarke on Le 2:1 several other examples might be added here, but they are not necessary. The command to offer salt with

GREEN EARS OF CORN - Rather, “fresh ears of corn;” that is, just-ripe grain, freshly gathered. Parched grain, such as is here spoken of, is a common article of food in Syria and Egypt, and was very generally eaten in ancient times. BEATEN OUT - Not rubbed out by the hands, as described in Luke 6:1, but bruised or crushed so as to form groats....

EXPOSITION THE MEAT OFFERING. The regulation of the burnt offering as a Levitical institution is immediately followed by a similar regulation of the meat offering, consisting of flour and oil, with salt and frankincense, and usually accompanied by the drink offering of wine. The sacrifice of the animal in the burnt offering had represented the entire surrender of the offerer's will and life to God; the presentation of the fruits and products of the earth in the meat offering represents man's gift of homage, whereby he acknowledges God's sovereignty over all things and over himself, by offering to him a portion of that which he had graciously bestowed in abundance. David's words, "All things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee … all this store cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own" (1 Chronicles 29:1

AND IF THOU OFFER A MEAT OFFERING OF THY FIRSTFRUITS UNTO THE LORD,.... This, according to Aben Ezra, was not any of the offerings of the firstfruits, which they were obliged to, as at the passover or pentecost, or feast of tabernacles, but a free will offering; but Jarchi thinks it is to be understood of the meat offering of the Omer, Leviticus 23:13 and so Gersom, which was offered up on the sixteenth of Nisan; and this is the general sense of the Jewish writers b: THOU SHALT BRING FOR THE MEAT OFFERING OF THY FIRSTFRUITS GREEN EARS OF CORN DRIED BY THE FIRE; these were ears of barley, which began to be ripe in the month Abib, which month had its name from hence, and is the word here used; these were dried by the fire, being green and moist, or otherwise they could not have been ground; for, according to Gersom, these were afterwards ground into fine flour:...

2. THE MEAL OFFERING CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The general instruction (Leviticus 2:1)_ 2. Baked in the oven (Leviticus 2:4) 3. Baked in a pan (Leviticus 2:5) 4. Baked in a frying pan (Leviticus 2:7) 5. Presented unto the priest (Leviticus 2:8) 6. The oblation of the firstfruits (Leviticus 2:12) The word “meat” should be changed throughout this chapter to “meal.” This offering or oblation is closely connected with th

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. 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....

BEATEN. Same type as baken, Leviticus 2:4....