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2:5

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2:5	If the sacrifice is a pan fried offering, it shall be made of wheat meal mixed with olive oil, and it shall remain unleavened. Ve'im-minchah al-hamachavat korbanecha solet blulah vashemen matsah tihyeh.
2:6	Break it into little pieces, and pour olive oil on it. [In this respect] it is [like every other] meal offering. Patot otah pitim veyatsakta aleyha shamen minchah hi.
2:7	Third Reading If your sacrifice is a meal offering prepared in a deep pot, it shall be made of wheat meal in olive oil. Ve'im-minchat marcheshet korbanecha solet bashemen te'aseh.

Commentary:

pan fried...
Literally, 'meal offering on a pan' (see Menachoth 63a; Rashi.) Machbath in Hebrew. Cf. Ezekiel 4:3. The oil was first placed in the pan (2:7), and then the meal was placed on it. More oil was then mixed with the meal, and it was kneaded with warm water (Yad, Maaseh HaKorbanoth 13:6; cf. Rashi, Menachoth 74b, s.v. Matan Shemen).

Break it...
In all these offerings, the 1/10 ephah of flour was baked into ten loaves (Menachoth 76a; Yad, Maaseh HaKorbanoth 13:10; Rashi). Each of these loaves would then be broken into four pieces, each approximately the size of an olive (Sifra; Menachoth 75a,b; Yad, loc. cit.). Some say that any pieces larger than olive size must be broken up further (Rashi, Menachoth 75b; Rambam on Menachoth 6:4).

In this respect...
This was done to all meal offerings that were baked or fried (Menachoth 75a; Rashi; Yad, Maaseh HaKorbanoth 13:6).

deep pot
(Rashi; Menachoth 63a; Saadia). Marchesheth in Hebrew.

in olive oil
Oil was placed in the pot first (Menachoth 74b, 75a).

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