You may bring them to the Lord as an offering of firstfruits, but they are not to be offered on the altar as a pleasing aroma. Yeast and honey can be brought as firstfruits offerings — they are acceptable as gifts to God — but they cannot be burned on the altar as food offerings. The distinction between what can be given and what can be burned establishes a hierarchy within the offering system: not everything that is acceptable as a gift qualifies as an altar offering. The firstfruits with leaven (Leviticus 23:17, the two loaves of Pentecost) can be brought as wave offerings; they cannot be burned as food offerings. The altar has a higher standard than the storehouse.

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