And from the finest wheat flour make round loaves without yeast, thick loaves without yeast and with olive oil mixed in, and thin loaves without yeast and brushed with olive oil. The bread offerings for the ordination ceremony — unleavened bread in three forms: round loaves, thick loaves mixed with oil, thin loaves brushed with oil. The three forms of unleavened bread correspond to the three categories that appear throughout the grain offering system of Leviticus. The completeness of the grain offering — three forms covering all the standard unleavened bread categories — signals that the ordination is a comprehensive offering: every form of grain worship is included. The same absence of leaven that characterized the Passover characterizes the ordination: the consecration of the priests is as leaven-free as the night of liberation.

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