What Does Leviticus 7:10 Mean in the King James?

And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as much as another.

Leviticus 7:10 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

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

THE KEY

Oil-mixed and dry offerings enter the same distribution: preparation changes, but each receives an equal share.

THE MEANING

The offering comes in two forms, mixed with oil and dry, yet every son receives the same share. For the reader now, difference in what is brought does not set the measure of each person’s portion.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

A richer-looking offering deserves a larger share.

THE ROOT

בְּלוּלָה

belulah

GROWS FROM

בלל

balal

To mix, mingle, or blend.

English presents “mingled” as a detail of preparation, while the root carries the act of bringing ingredients together. Here, that mixed offering and the dry offering both belong to one shared distribution.

ALSO GROWS

balal: To mix or mingle.

בָּלַל

This verb names the combining of oil with the grain offering.

belil: A mixture, including mixed fodder.

בְּלִיל

This related form keeps the sense of distinct materials made into a mixture, echoing the offering’s preparation.

THE PATTERN

Shared provision is apportioned evenly even when what is gathered or brought differs.

And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.

Exodus 16:18 · KJVDifferent amounts gathered resolve into provision with neither excess nor lack.

But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:

2 Corinthians 8:14 · KJVWhat each has differs, while the sharing is directed toward equality.

THE THREAD

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 · KJV

The same Hebrew word, ⁨בְּלוּלָה⁩ (belulah), describes flour mingled with oil, bringing the root back to the offering’s preparation. Leviticus 7:10 then places the oil-mixed and dry forms within one equal distribution.

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