Leviticus 2:1
When any one shall offer an oblation of sacrifice to the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour, and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Anima cum obtulerit oblationem sacrificii Domino, simila erit ejus oblatio ; fundetque super eam oleum, et ponet thus,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ἐὰν δὲ ψυχὴ προσφέρῃ δῶρον θυσίαν τῷ κυρίῳ, σεμίδαλις ἔσται τὸ δῶρον αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἐπιχεεῖ ἐπ᾽ αὐτὸ ἔλαιον, καὶ ἐπιθήσει ἐπ᾽ αὐτὸ λίβανον· θυσία ἐστίν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְנֶ֗פֶשׁ כִּֽי תַקְרִ֞יב קָרְבַּ֤ן מִנְחָה֙ לַֽיהוָ֔ה סֹ֖לֶת יִהְיֶ֣ה קָרְבָּנ֑וֹ וְיָצַ֤ק עָלֶ֨יהָ֙ שֶׁ֔מֶן וְנָתַ֥ן עָלֶ֖יהָ לְבֹנָֽה
Haydock's commentary
One, (anima). The soul is put to denote the whole person.
Of sacrifice. Hebrew mincha, which is applied to inanimate things, particularly to flour, "a present of wheat." (Vatable)
As the other sacrifices have peculiar names, this is barely called sacrifice by the Vulgate. It was instituted, 1. for the poor; 2. to support the ministers of religion; 3. to shew that God was to be honoured with the fruits of the earth; 4. sacrifice being intended as a sort of feast, bread, salt, wine, and oil accompany it; and also incense, which was almost solely reserved for God. (Menochius)
The person who offered the sacrifice, had to furnish all things belonging to it. The Samaritan and Septuagint add at the end of this verse, "Behold what is the offering of the Lord." Similar words occur, (ver. 6. and 16,) in Hebrew. Sacrifices of flour were the most ancient of all. Ovid (Fast. ii.) says, Farra tamen veteres jaciebant, farra metebant, &c. "Numa taught the people to worship the gods with fruits and flour, and to make supplication with a salted cake." (Pliny, xviii. 2.) Fruge deos colere, & molâ salsâ supplicare. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.