Numbers 6:15 (DRB)

Passage

A basket also of unleavened bread, tempered with oil, and wafers without leaven anointed with oil, and the libations of each:

Nearby Context

Numbers 6:13 This is the law of consecration. When the days which he had determined by vow shall be expired, he shall bring him to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant,

Numbers 6:14 And shall offer his oblation to the Lord: one he lamb of a year old without blemish for a holocaust, and one ewe lamb of a year old without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for a victim of peace offering,

Numbers 6:15 A basket also of unleavened bread, tempered with oil, and wafers without leaven anointed with oil, and the libations of each:

Numbers 6:16 And the priest shall present them before the Lord, and shall offer both the sin offering and the holocaust.

Numbers 6:17 But the ram he shall immolate for a sacrifice of peace offering to the Lord, offering at the same time the basket of unleavened bread, and the libations that are due by custom.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "basket", "unleavened", "bread", "tempered", "wafers", "without", and "anointed". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "basket" and "unleavened", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 14's "And shall offer his oblation to the..." into verse 16's "And the priest shall present them before...", so "basket" and "unleavened" belong inside that flow. In Numbers context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "basket" and "unleavened" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.