Leviticus 2:14
Ver. 14. 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, Le 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:
[even] corn beaten out of full ears; and so made the finest flour: the firstfruits were a type of Christ, who is so called, 1Co 15:23 the beating of the ears of corn, and drying of them by the fire, and the grinding of them, denoted the sufferings of Christ.{b} Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Menachot, c. 10. sect. 4. Leviticus 2:15Ver. 15. And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon,.... Either on the ears of corn dried, or on the fine flour of them when ground; in like manner as the oil and frankincense were put upon the fine flour of wheat, and upon the cakes and wafers baked, Le 2:1it [is] a meat offering; one sort of it, and like the rest. Leviticus 2:16Ver. 16. The priest shall burn the memorial of it,.... That which is taken out of it for a memorial, the same with the handful of fine flour and cakes of the meat offering:part of the beaten corn thereof; or that which was ground in a mill:and part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; as was done in the other meat offerings:it is an offering made by fire unto the Lord, see Le 2:2.
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