Leviticus 2

NEW JERUSALEM	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 ' "If anyone offers Yahweh a cereal offering, his offering must consist of wheaten flour on which he mustpour wine and put incense.	1 "When anyone wishes to bring a cereal offering to the LORD, his offering must consist of fine flour. He shall pour oil on it and put frankincense over it.
2 He wil bring it to the priests descended from Aaron; he wil take a handful of the wheaten flour, some ofthe oil and al the incense, and this the priest wil burn on the altar as a memorial, as food burnt as a smelpleasing to Yahweh.	2 When he has brought it to Aaron's sons, the priests, one of them shall take a handful of this fine flour and oil, together with all the frankincense, and this he shall burn on the altar as a token offering, a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD.
3 The remainder of the cereal offering wil revert to Aaron and his sons, an especially holy portion of thefood burnt for Yahweh.	3 The rest of the cereal offering belongs to Aaron and his sons. It is a most sacred oblation to the LORD.
4 "When you offer a cereal offering of dough baked in the oven, the wheaten flour must be preparedeither in the form of unleavened cakes mixed with oil, or in the form of unleavened wafers spread with oil.	4 "When the cereal offering you present is baked in an oven, it must be in the form of unleavened cakes made of fine flour mixed with oil, or of unleavened wafers spread with oil.
5 "If your offering is a cereal offering cooked on the griddle, the wheaten flour mixed with oil must containno leaven.	5 If you present a cereal offering that is fried on a griddle, it must be of fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened.
6 You wil break it in pieces and pour oil over it. It is a cereal offering.	6 Such a cereal offering must be broken into pieces, and oil must be poured over it.
7 "If your offering is a cereal offering cooked in the pan, the wheaten flour must be prepared with oil.	7 If you present a cereal offering that is prepared in a pot, it must be of fine flour, deep-fried in oil.
8 "You wil bring Yahweh the cereal offering thus prepared and present it to the priest; he wil take it to thealtar.	8 A cereal offering that is made in any of these ways you shall bring to the LORD, offering it to the priest, who shall take it to the altar.
9 And from the cereal offering the priest will take the memorial and burn it on the altar, food burnt as asmel pleasing to Yahweh.	9 Its token offering the priest shall then lift from the cereal offering and burn on the altar as a sweet-smelling oblation to the LORD.
10 The remainder of the cereal offering wil revert to Aaron and his descendants: it is especial y holy sinceit is taken from the food burnt for Yahweh.	10 The rest of the cereal offering belongs to Aaron and his sons. It is a most sacred oblation to the LORD.
11 "None of the cereal offerings which you offer to Yahweh must be prepared with leaven, for you mustnever include leaven or honey in food burnt for Yahweh.	11 "Every cereal offering that you present to the LORD shall be unleavened, for you shall not burn any leaven or honey as an oblation to the LORD.
12 You may offer them to Yahweh as an offering of first-fruits, but they wil not make a pleasing smel ifthey are burnt on the altar.	12 Such you may indeed present to the LORD in the offering of first fruits, but they are not to be placed on the altar for a pleasing odor.
13 You will put salt in every cereal offering that you offer, and you will not fail to put the salt of thecovenant of your God on your cereal offering; to every offering you wil add an offering of salt to your God.	13 However, every cereal offering that you present to the LORD shall be seasoned with salt. Do not let the salt of the covenant of your God be lacking from your cereal offering. On every offering you shall offer salt.
14 If you offer Yahweh a cereal offering of first-fruits, you wil offer it in the form of roasted ears of wheator of bread made from ground wheat.	14 "If you present a cereal offering of first fruits to the LORD, you shall offer it in the form of fresh grits of new ears of grain, roasted by fire.
15 You will add oil to it and put incense on it; it is a cereal offering;	15 On this cereal offering you shall put oil and frankincense.
16 and from it the priest wil burn the memorial with some bread and oil (and all the incense) as food burntfor Yahweh." '	16 For its token offering the priest shall then burn some of the grits and oil, together with all the frankincense, as an oblation to the LORD.