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Leviticus 2:15 Explained in Context

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Verse 15. And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is a meat offering.

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Role in This Section

This verse adds oil and frankincense to the new grain.

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  • Leviticus 2:14-16

Place Leviticus 2:15 inside 2:14-16. This verse adds oil and frankincense to the new grain. Its surrounding procedure or case makes the larger point: Roasted new grain is crushed, dressed with oil and frankincense, and partly burned as its memorial portion.

Why It Needs Context

This verse adds oil and frankincense to the new grain. Its force depends on Leviticus 2:14-16, where the complete ritual, legal, narrative, or calendar movement supplies the teachable claim.

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Read Leviticus 2:14-16 — Early grain is offered with oil and frankincense
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Biblical text

King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

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Exact location: Leviticus 2:14-16, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus

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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus

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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 2:14-16

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