The offerings listed in Leviticus, chapters 1 through 3, are to be burned on the altar as a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the LORD. It seems that provisions are made for worshipers of all income levels--from those who can afford to offer a young bull to those who can offer no more than a bird. Is there is an expectation that everyone makes offerings?
I wonder about the grain offering. Is this a practice to be put into action during the people's migration from Egypt to Canaan or afterward? Migratory people don't harvest their own grain crops. It seems that these people have only manna to eat anyway (Exodus 16:35). Maybe the migrant Hebrews have stores of grain, but those stores are reserved for feeding their flocks and herds. If so, then the grain offering one makes during the travel time from Egypt to Canaan is very, very dear, indeed.
What am I offering to the LORD that is very, very costly?
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