24:5 “You must take choice wheat flour 3 and bake twelve loaves; 4 there must be two tenths of an ephah of flour in 5 each loaf,
1 tn Heb “a grain offering of a pan”; cf. KJV “fryingpan”; NAB “pot”; CEV “pan with a lid on it.”
2 sn Lev 7:9 makes it clear that one cooked “on” a griddle but “in” a pan. This suggests that the oil in the pan served for deep fat frying, hence the translation “deep fried in olive oil” (see, e.g., J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:185); cf. also NAB.
3 sn See the note on Lev 2:1.
4 tn Heb “and bake it twelve loaves”; KJV, NAB, NASB “cakes.”
5 tn The words “of flour” are supplied in the translation for clarity.
sn See the note on Lev 5:11.