Thursday, June 5, 2025

Leviticus 6:14-30 - Sweet Aroma and Holy Offerings

Leviticus 6:14-30

The Law of the Grain Offering

14 ‘This is the law of the grain offering: The sons of Aaron shall offer it on the altar before the LORD. 15 He shall take from it his handful of the fine flour of the grain offering, with its oil, and all the frankincense which is on the grain offering, and shall burn it on the altar for a sweet aroma, as a memorial to the LORD. 16 And the remainder of it Aaron and his sons shall eat; with unleavened bread it shall be eaten in a holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of meeting they shall eat it. 17 It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of My offerings made by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the trespass offering. 18 All the males among the children of Aaron may eat it. It shall be a statute forever in your generations concerning the offerings made by fire to the LORD. Everyone who touches them must be holy.’”

19 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 20 “This is the offering of Aaron and his sons, which they shall offer to the LORD, beginning on the day when he is anointed: one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a daily grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it at night. 21 It shall be made in a pan with oil. When it is mixed, you shall bring it in. The baked pieces of the grain offering you shall offer for a sweet aroma to the LORD. 22 The priest from among his sons, who is anointed in his place, shall offer it. It is a statute forever to the LORD. It shall be wholly burned. 23 For every grain offering for the priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten.”

The Law of the Sin Offering

24 Also the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 25 “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed, the sin offering shall be killed before the LORD. It is most holy. 26 The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. In a holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of meeting. 27 Everyone who touches its flesh must be holy. And when its blood is sprinkled on any garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled, in a holy place. 28 But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken. And if it is boiled in a bronze pot, it shall be both scoured and rinsed in water. 29 All the males among the priests may eat it. It is most holy. 30 But no sin offering from which any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of meeting, to make atonement in the holy place, shall be eaten. It shall be burned in the fire.


The grain and sin offerings were both holy offerings to the LORD, with the grain offering of unleavened (sinless) flour cakes sending up the sweet aroma like the sacrifice of Christ and (Ephesians 5:2) the prayers of the saints (Revelation 8:3-4), while the sin offerings were most holy sacrifices without blood in the holy place burned instead of eaten by the priests.  The first offering of the grain is significant because the prohibition of leaven in the flour mixed with the oil and frankincense pointed to the need to keep sin out of the sincere offering of a holy life that the priests shared in eating after a handful was offered to the Holy One.  This offering was made by fire and whoever touched it was required to keep himself from sin to rightfully present it to the LORD.  It was also described as a sweet aroma to please God as the final and complete offering of Christ would later accomplish once and for all.  It also hinted at the offering of our prayers to God needing to come from a holy and righteous priest of which all we who are in Christ are.  Our righteousness is found in the most holy offering of Jesus Christ to make us blameless in His sight and therefore worthy to offer such sweet prayers of praise and worship to our God in heaven.  As to the sin offering, it was killed in the sight of the LORD, just as Christ was nailed to the cross as our sacrifice on the tree of sin’s curse where He cried out for mercy and forgiveness to us all (Luke 23:34) there.  He truly is the most holy sacrifice and the most holy High Priest who offered Himself on that tree for our sakes that we may offer prayers of thanksgiving like wafting sweet aromas of ourselves as living sacrifices (Romans 12:1, 1 Peter 2:5) to honor and worship our Lord and God in these temples of our individual and corporate bodies.  These then are the prior ceremonial and now actualized offerings for sin’s forgiveness leading to acceptable praise as well-pleasing to our Lord. 

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