II. UNBLOODY OFFERINGS. These were-1.The mincha proper, usually rendered in the : A. V. meat-offering.' Of this, three leading de scriptions are mentioned : (r.) Fine flour n5b, accompanied by oil and frankincense (Lev. ; (2) Unleavened cakes of fine flour, accompanied with oil, prepared in the oven, "MI (ver. 4) ; or in a pan, rgrp, or flat iron plate (vers. 5, 6), or in a frying-pan, or rather pot, or kettle (ver. 7); (3.) Parched corn of the first-fruits with oil (ver. 14). Every meat-offering was to be seasoned with salt (ver. 13). Part of it was burned on the altar, and the rest was the priests' (vers. 9, to). The meat offering itself was the symbol of good works, our best. offering unto God, after the consecration of ourselves ; oil, the symbol of the Holy Spirit, by which all really good works are influenced and per vaded ; salt, the emblem of incorruption, durabi lity, and fidelity ; and frankincense, significant of the acceptability of the whole unto God. The mincha usually accompanied and was subsidiary to the sin and burnt offerings. Unbloody offerings, presented alone, resembling the mineha, were not meat-offerings, but substitutes for other offerings, ex. gr., for the sin-offering (Lev. v. II). The quantity of material in the mincha was graduated according to the victims offered as a burnt-offering, ex. gr., a tenth-deal of fine flour for a lamb, two tenth-deals for a ram, and three tenth-deals for a bullock (Num. xv. 4, 5, 6, 9)• A meat-offering of t. peculiar and exceptional kind was that appointed to accompany the trial foi jealousy, consisting of the tenth of an ephah of barley meal, without either oil or frankincense (Num. v. 15) ; corresponding thus with the hum bled condition of the suspected wife.
2. The drink-offering, or neseh tip? (from to pour out), LXX. crIrcw81). This is only men tioned in Exod. xxix. 40, 41 ; Lev. xxiti. 13 ; xviii. 37, as an accompaniment of other offerings ; and in Exod. xxx. 9, is forbidden to be offered upon the altar of incense in the holy place ; but not till Num. xv. I-I2, is it formally described.
Here it is ordered to he graduated according to the value of the victim (as in the case of the meat offering) : the fourth, the third, the half, of a hin of wine (vers. 4, 7, to). The vessels used for the drink-offering are mentioned Num. iv. 7. The reason the nesek was not described at an earlier period was, that the offering of it was not intended for Israel's desert-state, when wine was not pro curable, but to be deferred till the settlement of the tribes in Canaan ; for the law respecting it is prefaced thus : when ye be come into the land of your habitations.' What was done with the wine of the drink-offering we are not expressly told, but we infer that it was all poured out, as the name imports, and as the priests were not allowed to drink wine when they went into the tabernacle (Lev. x. 9). Where it was poured out is not stated. In the Wisdom of Sirach, the high-priest is represented as pouring it out els OektAta Ouo-mo- rnp/ou (1. 15). Josephus says it was poured out, rep/ (Axtiy. iii. 9. 4). There can be little doubt that it was poured out—not at the foot of the altar, as the blood not used was poured, simply to get rid of it, or to signify the pouring out of life, but—upon the sacrifice, as it lay upon the altar, and therefore, according to Josephus, about the altar. The nature of the offering itself, pre sented like the mincha, as the food of the great King,—' wine that cheereth both God and man' —shuts up to this. And Paul's reference to the nesek in his memorable words : el real irl Ouo-ig, etc., yea, should I be poured out as a libation upon the sacrifice and service of your faith,' confirms this view.
3. The Incense-Offering-. [INCENSE.] 4. The First-fruits. [FIRST-FRUITS.] 5. Firstlings. [FIRST-BORN.] 6. Tithes. [TITHES.] 7. Money and materials for the erection of the tabernacle and temple, and for the repair of the latter. [TABERNACLE and TEMPLE.] These were all Korba9zim = gifts or offerings, presented unto God, and acceptable to him when offered with a willing mind.