Numbers 6:15 (LSB)

Passage

and a basket of unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers spread with oil, along with their grain offering and their drink offering.

Nearby Context

Numbers 6:13 ‘Now this is the law of the Nazirite when the days of his Nazirite vow are fulfilled: he shall bring the offering to the doorway of the tent of meeting.

Numbers 6:14 And he shall bring his offering near to Yahweh: one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering and one ewe-lamb a year old without blemish for a sin offering and one ram without blemish for a peace offering,

Numbers 6:15 and a basket of unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers spread with oil, along with their grain offering and their drink offering.

Numbers 6:16 Then the priest shall bring them near before Yahweh and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.

Numbers 6:17 He shall also offer with the ram a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, together with the basket of unleavened cakes; the priest shall likewise offer its grain offering and its drink offering.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "basket", "unleavened", "cakes", "fine", "flour", "mixed", and "wafers". 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 he shall bring his offering near..." into verse 16's "Then the priest shall bring them near...", 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.