Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 7:13
Besides the cakes, he shall offer [for] his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.
13. With cakes of leavened bread he shall offer his oblation ] The cakes described in Lev 7:12 form the oblation; besides these he is to bring leavened cakes, which are not intended for the altar (see Lev 2:11) but are similar in character to the offering mentioned in Lev 2:12. According to Amo 4:5, leaven was brought with a thanksgiving offering, and the two wave loaves offered at the Feast of Weeks (Lev 23:17) were ‘baken with leaven.’ If ‘with’ (i.e. the first ‘al of Lev 7:13 in the passage from Wellh. quoted above), be omitted, then the rendering would be ‘ cakes of leavened bread shall he bring as his oblation in addition to the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving,’ and ‘his oblation’ would then refer to the leavened cakes of Lev 7:13. The same reference is made in the rendering of A.V., but it is doubtful whether ‘besides the cakes’ can be taken as a translation of the existing Mass. text.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
For his offering – The leavened bread was a distinct offering.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Leavened bread; partly, because this was a sacrifice of another kind than those in which leaven was forbidden, this being a sacrifice of thanksgiving for Gods blessings, among which leavened bread was one; partly, to show that leaven was not so strictly forbidden in other sacrifices, as if it were evil in itself, but to teach us wholly to rest in the will of God in all his appointments, without too scrupulous an inquiry into the particular reasons of them.
Object. Leaven was universally forbidden, Lev 2:11.
Answ. 1. That prohibition concerned only things offered and burnt upon the altar, which this bread was not, but it was offered only towards the priests food.
2. That was another kind of sacrifice, and therefore it is no wonder if it had other rites.
3. That leaven was not universally forbidden appears from Lev 23:17.
With the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace-offerings, or, with the sacrifice of thanksgiving for his peace or prosperity.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Besides the cakes,…. The unleavened cakes, and the unleavened wafers, and the fried cakes; or with these, as Aben Ezra and Abendana interpret it:
he shall offer for his offering leavened bread, with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings; not that this was offered upon the altar, for all leaven was forbidden there, Le 2:11 but it was given to the priest, that he might have change of bread, and such as was agreeable to him, to eat with the flesh of the peace offerings he had a share of, and to the owners also; and the whole of this consisted of ten cakes likewise, as will appear by what Maimonides g says; he (the offerer) takes twenty tenths of fine flour, and makes ten leavened, and ten unleavened; the ten leavened he makes into ten cakes, and the ten unleavened he makes of them eighty cakes alike, ten cakes of every sort, ten cakes baked in an oven, ten cakes wafers, and ten cakes slightly baked.
g Maaseh Hakorbanot, c. 9. sect. 17, 18, 21.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
This sacrificial gift the offerer was to present upon, or along with, cakes of leavened bread (round, leavened bread-cakes), and to offer “ thereof one out of the whole oblation, ” namely, one cake of each of the three kinds mentioned in Lev 7:12, as a heave-offering for Jehovah, which was to fall to the priest who sprinkled the blood of the peace-offering. According to Lev 2:9, an azcarah of the unleavened pastry was burned upon the altar, although this is not specially mentioned here any more than at Lev 7:9 and Lev 7:10; whereas none of the leavened bread-cake was placed upon the altar (Lev 2:12), but it was simply used as bread for the sacrificial meal. There is nothing here to suggest an allusion to the custom of offering unleavened sacrificial cakes upon a plate of leavened dough, as J. D. Michaelis, Winer, and others suppose.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(13) Besides the cakes.That is, the thirty un leavened cakes which were made of half of the quantity of the flour brought by the offerer, as described in the previous verse, the ten leavened cakes made of the other half of the flour are to be brought. These had all to be baked before the victim was slaughtered. The only other occasion when leavened bread formed part of the offering was on Pentecost (Lev. 23:17); but no portion of it was burnt on the altar as a memorial, for leaven was forbidden to be on the altar. (See Lev. 2:11-12.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
13. He shall offer leavened bread This requirement does not conflict with the prohibition of leaven in Lev 2:11, because it is not burned, but eaten in a joyful banquet where it is proper to gratify the palate.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Lev 7:13. He shall offerleavened bread In ch. Lev 2:11 all leaven in bread-offerings, is forbidden. Their opinion, therefore, seems most plausible, who think that this fine leavened bread was not for the altar, but to be eaten by the priests together with the offerer and his friends, who feasted on the sacrifice. This might be rendered, besides these cakes, he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace-offerings, leavened cakes; and of them (Lev 7:14.) he shall offer one, &c.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Lev 7:13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer [for] his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.
Ver. 13. Leavened bread. ] Lo, leavened bread will pass in a peace offering: God for Christ’s sake rejects not the services of his saints, though tainted with corruption. Peccata nobis non nocent, si non placent. a Wine is not thrown away for the dregs, nor gold for the dirt that cleaves unto it.
a August.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
offering. Hebrew. korban. App-43.
peace offerings. Hebrew. shelem. App-43.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
leaven
The use of leaven here is significant. Peace with God is something which the believer shares with God. Christ is our peace-offering Eph 2:13. Any thanksgiving for peace must, first of all, present Him. In Lev 7:12 we have this, in type, and so leaven is excluded. In Lev 7:13 it is the offerer who gives thanks for his participation in the peace, and so leaven fitly signifies, that though having peace with God through the work of another, there is still evil in him. This is illustrated in Amo 4:5 where the evil in Israel is before God.
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
leavened: Lev 23:17, Amo 4:5, Mat 13:33, 1Ti 4:4
Reciprocal: 1Sa 10:3 – three kids Jer 33:11 – sacrifice
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Lev 7:13. Leavened bread Because this was a sacrifice of another kind than those in which leaven was forbidden, this being a sacrifice of thanksgiving for Gods blessings, among which leavened bread was one.
Leaven indeed was universally forbidden, Lev 2:11; but that prohibition concerned only things offered and burned upon the altar, which this bread was not.