Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 29:2

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

2. Three kinds of biscuit, for the minh, or meal-offering (see on Leviticus 2.), accompanying the installation-offering: viz. (1) bread of unleavened cakes, see on Exo 12:15; (2) perforated cakes ( EB. i. 460) unleavened, mingled with oil, see on Lev 2:4; and (3) wafers (large, circular, very thin cakes: see EB. i. 605; L. and B. iii. 219 f.), unleavened, anointed with oil, see also on Lev 2:4.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Verse 2. Unleavened bread] Three kinds of bread as to its form are mentioned here, but all unleavened:

1. matstsoth, unleavened bread, no matter in what shape. See Ex 12:8.

2. challoth, cakes, pricked or perforated, as the root implies.

3. rekikey, an exceeding thin cake, from rak, to be attenuated, properly enough translated wafer. The manner in which these were prepared is sufficiently plain from the text, and probably these were the principal forms in which flour was prepared for household use during their stay in the wilderness.

These were all waved before the Lord, Ex 29:24, as an acknowledgment that the bread that sustains the body, as well as the mercy which saves the soul, comes from God alone.

Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible

The unleavened bread was to show that the priests should be, and that Christ really was, free from all malice and hypocrisy, both which are compared to leaven, Luk 12:1; 1Co 5:8, and that all the services offered to God by the priests were to be pure and unmixed.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

And unleavened bread,…. Such as used to be eaten at the time of the passover, and this being distinguished from cakes and wafers, after mentioned, shows that this was bread of a larger size, a loaf or loaves of bread, see Ex 29:3

and cakes unleavened, tempered with oil; these were made of flour mixed with oil, but without leaven, and were a lesser and thinner sort of bread than the former:

and wafers unleavened, anointed with oil; with oil olive, the best of oil, as the Targum of Jonathan, and so Aben Ezra; these were a thinner sort of bread still, somewhat like our pancakes; and they were anointed with oil after the baking of them, and in the form of the Greek , “chi”, as Jarchi says, or of a St. Andrew’s or Burgundian cross:

of wheaten flour shall thou make them; of the finest of the wheat, for these were to be the food of Aaron and his sons, who were now to be invested with an high and honourable office, and were to live according to the dignity of it; and these being all unleavened, may denote that sincerity, simplicity, and integrity that ought to be found in them, in the discharge of their office, and which were in Christ in full perfection; as well as soundness in doctrine, life, and manners, being free from all leaven of false doctrine, hypocrisy, and malice; and likewise what is expected of the same kind in all the saints, who, under the Gospel dispensation, are all of them priests unto God, and whose food is the finest of the wheat, Christ the bread of life.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

(2) Unleavened bread.Unleavened bread seems to have been required as purer than leavened, since fermentation was viewed as a species of corruption.

Cakes . . . tempered with oil.Rather, cakes that have had oil poured over them. A tolerably thick cake is intended.

Wafers.These were cakes, or biscuits, extremely thin and unsubstantial, as is implied by the etymology of the term used. Oil is commonly eaten with cakes of both kinds by the Orientals.

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

2. Bread cakes oil The manner of preparing the vegetable offering is described in Leviticus ii, where see notes . The distinction between the cakes and the wafers was in the thinness of the latter, the unleavened bread being made up in two different forms .

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1Co 5:7 .

Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

Exo 29:2 And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: [of] wheaten flour shalt thou make them.

Ver. 2. And unlevened bread. ] See 1Co 5:7-8 . See Trapp on “ 1Co 5:7 “ See Trapp on “ 1Co 5:8 “]

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)