What Does Exodus 29:2 Mean in the King James?

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

Exodus 29:2 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

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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.

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 if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.

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

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

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

Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;

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

THE THREAD

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

Exodus 29:7 · KJV

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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