What Does Leviticus 7:10 Mean?
And every gift mixed with oil, and dry, all the sons of Aaron shall have, one as much as another.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as much as another.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 measured it with an omer, the one who gathered much had nothing over, and the one who gathered little had no lack. Each one gathered according to his eating.But through evenness, that in this present season your overflow may fill their lack, and their overflow may fill your lack, that there may be evenness.THE THREAD
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.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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