Leviticus Chapter 2
The second sacrificial offering detailed to be made to the Lord at the tabernacle involved the "meat" offering, which is properly interpreted as actually an offering not of "meat" as we know it today, but one of the best grains, cereals, and fruit. In effect, it was a "meal" offering.
Chapter 2 of Leviticus describes how the meal offering was to be made, through the Levitical priests — Aaron and his sons.
All meal offerings were to be made using the traditional fine oils poured over, along with the precious incense of high quality — frankincense. Meal offerings could also be made as baked goods or pan fried,
These offerings symbolized the persons giving to the Lord the first fruits of their farming labors. It was to be presented as a sacrifice as an act of worship to the Lord. It was an offering of the fruit of the soil and of one’s labor.
The first part of this sacrificial description involves fine flour of grains and cereals, which is first to be covered with fine oil and frankincense; then offered through Aaron and his priestly sons. The priests were to take a handful of the offering to be burned on the altar within the tabernacle as a memorial to create a "sweet savor unto the Lord." Leviticus 2:2.
The leftover of the offering was for the benefit of the priests in their role.
If the meal offering had been oven baked first, it was to be of unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil; or unleavened wafers anointed with oil. If it was fried in a pan, it was to be unleavened fine flour anointed with oil. If pan baked, also of unleavened flour, parted in pieces and anointed with oil. Leviticus 2:4-7.
As with the other meal offering, a portion was offered at the altar and burned to create a sweet savor unto the Lord; the remainder was for Aaron and his sons.
The chapter then carefully details how all meal offerings were to be made as unleavened, and never use leaven in altar burnings; and neither honey. 2:11.
However, all were to be seasoned with salt. 2:13.
If fruit was offered as the meal offering, green ears of corn were first to be dried by the fire, and then beaten out. Oil and frankincense were then to be added before being burned on the altar. 2:14-16.
The sacrifices to the Lord at the tabernacle were to be precise in line with the Lord’s instruction to create on the altar a sweet savor to the Lord.