What Does Exodus 29:2 Mean?

And unrisen bread, and unrisen cakes mixed with oil, and unrisen thin cakes anointed with oil. You make them of fine wheat flour.

Exodus 29:2 · SDV

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King James Version

And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.

THE KEY

The oil is both worked into the bread and spread across it, so preparation reaches within and marks the surface.

THE MEANING

This verse holds two kinds of readiness together: oil is mixed through one bread and spread over another. The bread remains unleavened, shaped from fine wheat flour, while its preparation takes different forms.

THE ROOT

מְשֻׁחִים

meshuchim

GROWS FROM

משח

To smear, spread over, or anoint.

“anointed with oil” in this verse is meshuchim. The same root behind “anointed” gives ⁨מָשִׁיחַ⁩ (mashiach, anointed one) and ⁨מִשְׁחָה⁩ (mishchah, anointing oil). Here the oil is mixed through one form of bread and spread over another, joining inner incorporation with an outward mark.

ALSO GROWS

mashiach: One who is anointed.

מָשִׁיחַ

The same root names both the wafer’s oil coating and a person marked by anointing.

mishchah: Anointing or anointing oil.

מִשְׁחָה

It names the oil associated with the action of spreading or anointing.

THE PATTERN

Oil can be worked into what is prepared or spread over it as a mark.

And when you bring near a gift baked in the oven, it is unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or thin unleavened wafers anointed with oil.

Leviticus 2:4 · SDVThe verse repeats the two forms found here: oil mingled through cakes and spread over wafers.

Then you take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.

Exodus 29:7 · SDVOil spread over the priest marks a person as the bread’s surface anointing marks the wafer.

Now the one who makes us firm with you in the Anointed One, and who has anointed us, is God.

2 Corinthians 1:21 · SDVAnointing marks people as well as bread, carrying the pattern from prepared material to persons.

THE THREAD

Then you take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.

Exodus 29:7 · SDV

The root ⁨משח⁩ (mashach, to smear or anoint) names the oil spread over the wafers here and the priest’s anointing there. The same action marks both prepared bread and the person appointed for service.

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