“And the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.”
The priest is to take out the memorial portion from the grain offering and burn it on the altar. It is a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the Lord. The memorial portion — the representative handful of flour and oil — is separated from the whole grain offering and burned. The whole offering is brought; only the memorial portion is burned. The pleasing aroma formula closes another grain offering regulation as it closed the burnt offering regulations. The variety of offerings — animal and grain, large and small, elaborate and simple — all produce the same pleasing aroma: the fragrance of the covenant relationship is the same regardless of which form of offering rises from the altar.
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