| 词条 | Gift offering |
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A meal offering, grain offering, or gift offering ({{lang-he|מנחה|}}, minkhah), is a type of Biblical sacrifice, specifically a sacrifice that did not include sacrificial animals. In older English it is sometimes called an oblation, from Latin. EtymologyThe Hebrew noun minkhah (מִנְחָה) is used 211 times in the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible with the first instances being the minkhah offered by both Cain and Abel in Genesis 4. It is also used of Jacob's "present" to Esau in Genesis 32 and again of the "present" to the Egyptian ruler (in fact Joseph his son) in Genesis 43. In the King James Version of 1611 this was rendered as "meat offerings," since at the time the King James Version was written, meat referred to food in general rather than the flesh of animals in particular. Hebrew BibleGift offerings were often made on their own, but also accompanied the burnt offering. Scholars{{who|date=September 2011}} believe that the term "gift offering" originally referred to all voluntary sacrifices, but that it later came to just refer to non-meat offerings. The quintessential "gift offering" was one of grain (not just high quality flour), frankincense, and oil. The grain could either be raw and mixed with oil, or mixed with oil and cooked into unleavened bread, or cooked into wafers and spread with oil. According to tradition{{what|date=September 2011}} ten such cakes of bread had to be made for each offering. A portion of this was then burnt on the altar, along with the frankincense, while the remainder was allocated to the priests, who were to eat it within the sanctuary. See also
Notes and citations{{Tanakh-stub}} 1 : Jewish sacrificial law |
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