Leviticus 2:12
You shall offer only the firstfruits of them and gifts: but they shall not be put upon the altar, for a savour of sweetness,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Primitias tantum eorum offeretis ac munera : super altare vero non imponentur in odorem suavitatis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- δῶρον ἀπαρχῆς προσοίσετε αὐτὰ Κυρίῳ· ἐπὶ δὲ τὸ θυσιαστήριον οὐκ ἀναβιβασθήσεται εἰς ὀσμὴν εὐωδίας Κυρίῳ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- קָרְבַּ֥ן רֵאשִׁ֛ית תַּקְרִ֥יבוּ אֹתָ֖ם לַיהוָ֑ה וְאֶל הַמִּזְבֵּ֥חַ לֹא יַעֲל֖וּ לְרֵ֥יחַ נִיחֹֽחַ
Haydock's commentary
First-fruits, &c., to be voluntarily given to the priests, in honour of God. The honey arising from the dates might also be offered.
It was little inferior to that of bees. (Josephus, Jewish Wars v. 3.) See Numbers xv. 19.
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.