Exodus 29:40

40. A tenth deal of flour The tenth part of an ephah is probably meant, which was an omer . See Exodus 16:36, note . Compare Numbers 5:15. Supposed to have been about three pounds in weight and not far from three quarts in measure. The hin was a liquid measure containing a little more than a gallon. The flour mingled with the beaten oil (Exodus 27:20) constituted the meat offering, on which see notes at Leviticus 2:0, and the wine is here expressly called a drink offering. This was a form of worship old as the days of the patriarchs, (see on Genesis 35:14,) and consisted in a devotional pouring out the wine as an oblation before or upon the altar of burnt offerings . It was not to be poured out on the altar of incense, (Exodus 30:9. )