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A meal offering (minchah) is of choice flour with oil, from which priest will remove a token portion to burn on the altar, and the remainder the priests can eat. Meal offerings cannot contain leaven or honey, and are to be seasoned with salt. Meal offerings of first fruits are new ears parched with fire or grits of the fresh grain.
The guilt offering is slaughtered at the same place as the burnt offering, the priest dashes its blood on the altar, burns its fat, tail, kidneys, and protuberance on the liver on the altar, eats the meat and keeps the skin. The priest offering it eats baked or grilled meal offerings, other meal offerings go to all the priests.
A meal offering, grain offering, or gift offering (Biblical Hebrew: מנחה, minkhah), is a type of Biblical sacrifice, specifically a sacrifice that did not include sacrificial animals. In older English it is sometimes called an oblation , from Latin.
The Rabbis taught in a Baraita that because Leviticus 2:15 says with regard to a meal offering of first-fruits, "you shall ... lay frankincense thereon; it is a meal-offering," Leviticus 2:15 meant to include within the requirement for frankincense the meal-offering that Leviticus 9:4 required Aaron to offer on the eighth day of consecration. [63]
A Midrash deduced the importance of peace from the way that the listing of the individual sacrifices in Leviticus 6–7 concludes with the peace offering. Leviticus 6:2–6 gives "the law of the burnt-offering," Leviticus 6:7–11 gives "the law of the meal-offering," Leviticus 6:18–23 gives "the law of the sin-offering," Leviticus 7:1–7 ...
Meal offerings of first fruits had to be new ears parched with fire, grits of the fresh grain. Sacrifices of well-being could be male or a female cattle, sheep, or goats, from which the priest would dash the blood on the sides of the altar and burn the fat around the entrails, the kidneys , and the protuberance on the liver on the altar.
The Sacrifice of the Old Covenant (painting by Peter Paul Rubens). Parashat Vayikra, VaYikra, Va-yikra, Wayyiqra, or Wayyiqro (וַיִּקְרָא —Hebrew for "and He called," the first word in the parashah) is the 24th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the first in the Book of Leviticus.
Leviticus 23:16–19 sets out a course of offerings for the fiftieth day, including a meal-offering of two loaves made from fine flour from the firstfruits of the harvest; burnt-offerings of seven lambs, one bullock, and two rams; a sin-offering of a goat; and a peace-offering of two lambs.