Lev 2:4 | NETfull | STEP | “‘When you present an offering of grain baked in an oven, it must be made of choice wheat flour baked into unleavened loaves mixed with olive oil or unleavened wafers smeared with olive oil.

Leviticus 2:4

Processed Grain Offerings

4 “‘When you present an offering of grain baked in an oven, it must be made of ^{▼▼ The insertion of the words “it must be made of” is justified by the context and the expressed words “it shall be made of” in vv. 7 and 8 below.} choice wheat flour baked into unleavened loaves ^{▼▼ These “loaves” were either “ring-shaped” (HALOT 317 s.v. חַלָּה) or “perforated” (BDB 319 s.v. חַלָּה; cf. J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:184).} mixed with olive oil or ^{▼▼ Heb “and.” Here the conjunction vav (ו) has an alternative sense (“or”).} unleavened wafers smeared ^{▼▼ The Hebrew word מְשֻׁחִים (m^eshukhim) translated here as “smeared” is often translated “anointed” in other contexts. Cf. TEV “brushed with olive oil” (CEV similar).} with olive oil.