SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:14
Y si ofrecieres al SEÑOR presente de primicias, tostarás al fuego las espigas verdes, y el grano desmenuzado ofrecerás por ofrenda de tus primicias.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Leviticus 2:14
Verse 14. Green ears of corn dried by the fire] Green or half-ripe ears of wheat parched with fire is a species of food in use among the poor people of Palestine and Egypt to the present day. As God is represented as keeping a table among his people, (for the tabernacle was his house, where he had the golden table, shewbread, &c.,) so he represents himself as partaking with them of all the aliments that were in use, and even sitting down with the poor to a repast on parched corn! We have already seen that these green ears were presented as a sort of eucharistical offering for the blessings of seed time, and the prospect of a plentiful harvest. See the note on "ver. 1"; several other examples might be added here, but they are not necessary. The command to offer salt with every oblation, and which was punctually observed by the Jews, will afford the pious reader some profitable reflections. It is well known that salt has two grand properties. 1. It seasons and renders palatable the principal ailments used for the support of life. 2. It prevents putrefaction and decay. The covenant of God, that is, his agreement with his people, is called a covenant of salt, to denote as we have seen above, its stable undecaying nature, as well as to point out its importance and utility in the preservation of the life of the soul. The grace of God by Christ Jesus is represented under the emblem of salt, (see Mark ix. 49; Ephesians iv. 29; Col. iv. 6,) because of its relishing, nourishing, and preserving quality. Without it no offering, no sacrifice, no religious service, no work even of charity and mercy, can be acceptable in the sight of God. In all things we must come unto the Father THROUGH HIM. And from none of our sacrifices or services must this salt of the covenant of our God be lacking.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 14. And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the Lord , etc.] 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, ( Leviticus 23:13,14) and so Gersom, which was offered up on the sixteenth of Nisan; and this is the general sense of the Jewish writers f73 : 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, ( 1 Corinthians 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 12-16 - Salt is required in all the offerings. God hereby intimates to the that their sacrifices, in themselves, were unsavoury. All religiou services must be seasoned with grace. Christianity is the salt of the earth. Directions are given about offering their first-fruits a harvest. If a man, with a thankful sense of God's goodness in giving him a plentiful crop, was disposed to present an offering to God, le him bring the first ripe and full ears. Whatever was brought to God must be the best in its kind, though it were but green ears of corn Oil and frankincense must be put upon it. Wisdom and humility softe and sweeten the spirits and services of young people, and their gree ears of corn shall be acceptable. God takes delight in the first rip fruits of the Spirit, and the expressions of early piety and devotion Holy love to God is the fire by which all our offerings must be made The frankincense denotes the mediation and intercession of Christ, by which our services are accepted. Blessed be God that we have the substance, of which these observances were but shadows. There is tha excellency in Christ, and in his work as Mediator, which no types an shadows can fully represent. And our dependence thereon must be s entire, that we must never lose sight of it in any thing we do, if we would be accepted of God __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ואם 518 תקריב 7126 מנחת 4503 בכורים 1061 ליהוה 3068 אביב 24 קלוי 7033 באשׁ 784 גרשׂ 1643 כרמל 3759 תקריב 7126 את 853 מנחת 4503 בכוריך׃ 1061
