Leviticus 2:11 “No grain offering that you present to the LORD may be made with leaven…”

Leviticus 2:11

No grain offering that you present to the LORD may be made with leaven, for you are not to burn any leaven or honey as a food offering to the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

“‘No meal offering which you shall offer to the LORD shall be made with yeast; for you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to the LORD.

American Standard Version

No meal-offering, which ye shall offer unto Jehovah, shall be made with leaven; for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.

Geneva Bible 1599

All the meate offrings which ye shall offer vnto the Lord, shalbe made without leauen: for ye shall neither burne leauen nor honie in any offring of the Lord made by fire.

Darby Translation

No oblation which ye shall present to Jehovah shall be made with leaven; for no leaven and no honey shall ye burn [in] any fire-offering to Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

No present which ye bring near to Jehovah is made fermented, for with any leaven or any honey ye perfume no fire-offering to Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English

No meal offering which you give to the Lord is to be made with leaven; no leaven or honey is to be burned as an offering made by fire to the Lord.

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Cross references

“no leaven”

Luke 12:1 Galatians 5:9 Mark 8:15 Matthew 16:6 1 Corinthians 5:6–8 Leviticus 6:17

Luke 12:1 · BSB

In the meantime, a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling one another. Jesus began to speak first to His disciples: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Galatians 5:9 · BSB

A little leaven works through the whole batch of dough.

Mark 8:15 · BSB

“Watch out!” He cautioned them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod.”

Matthew 16:6 · BSB

“Watch out!” Jesus told them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

1 Corinthians 5:6–8 · BSB

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?

Leviticus 6:17 · BSB

It must not be baked with leaven; I have assigned it as their portion of My food offerings. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.

“honey”

Proverbs 24:13 Proverbs 25:16 Proverbs 25:27 Luke 21:34 1 Peter 4:2 Acts 14:22

Proverbs 24:13 · BSB

Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.

Proverbs 25:16 · BSB

If you find honey, eat just what you need, lest you have too much and vomit it up.

Proverbs 25:27 · BSB

It is not good to eat too much honey or to search out one’s own glory.

Luke 21:34 · BSB

But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.

1 Peter 4:2 · BSB

Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.

Acts 14:22 · BSB

strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.

Also

Exodus 23:18 Leviticus 6:16–17 Exodus 34:25

Exodus 23:18 · BSB

You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning.

Leviticus 6:16–17 · BSB

Aaron and his sons are to eat the remainder. It must be eaten without leaven in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.

Exodus 34:25 · BSB

Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to Me along with anything leavened, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10But the remainder of the grain offering shall belong to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the food offerings to the LORD.

12You may bring them to the LORD as an offering of firstfruits, but they must not go up on the altar as a pleasing aroma.

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