Leviticus 2:11
Good News Translation
None of the grain offerings which you present to the LORD may be made with yeast; you must never use yeast or honey in food offered to the LORD.

New Revised Standard Version
No grain offering that you bring to the LORD shall be made with leaven, for you must not turn any leaven or honey into smoke as an offering by fire to the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
Yeast and honey must never be burned on the altar, so don't ever mix either of these in a grain sacrifice.

New American Bible
Every grain offering that you present to the LORD shall be unleavened, for you shall not burn any leaven or honey as an oblation to the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Every oblation that is offered to the Lord shall be made without leaven: neither shall any leaven or honey be burnt in the sacrifice to the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Every oblation that is offered to the Lord shall be made without leaven: neither shall any leaven or honey be burnt in the sacrifice to the Lord.

no leaven

Leviticus 6:17 And therefore it shall not be leavened, because part thereof is offered for the burnt sacrifice of the Lord. It shall be most holy, as that which is offered for sin and for trespass.

Exodus 12:19,20 Seven days there shall not be found any leaven in your houses: he that shall eat leavened bread, his soul shall perish out of the assembly of Israel, whether he be a stranger or born in the land. . . .

Matthew 16:6,11,12 Who said to them: Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. . . .

Mark 8:15 And he charged them saying: Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the leaven of Herod.

Luke 12:1 And when great multitudes stood about him, so that they trod one upon another, he began to say to his disciples: Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

1 Corinthians 5:6-8 Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump? . . .

Galatians 5:9 A little leaven corrupteth the whole lump.

honey

Proverbs 24:13 Eat honey, my son, because it is good, and the honeycomb most sweet to thy throat.

Proverbs 25:16,27 Thou hast found honey, eat what is sufficient for thee, lest being glutted therewith thou vomit it up. . . .

Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.

Acts 14:22 Confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to continue in the faith: and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

1 Peter 4:2 That now he may live the rest of his time in the flesh, not after the desires of men but according to the will of God.

Context
Laws for Grain Offerings
10And whatsoever is left, shall be Aaron's, and his sons': holy of holies of the offerings of the Lord. 11Every oblation that is offered to the Lord shall be made without leaven: neither shall any leaven or honey be burnt in the sacrifice to the Lord.12You shall offer only the firstfruits of them and gifts: but they shall not be put upon the altar, for a savour of sweetness.…
Cross References
Exodus 23:18
Thou shalt not sacrifice the blood of my victim upon leaven, neither shall the fat of my solemnity remain until the morning.

Exodus 29:25
And thou shalt take all from their hands; and shalt burn them upon the altar for a holocaust, a most sweet savour in the sight of the Lord, because it is his oblation.

Exodus 34:25
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice upon leaven; neither shall there remain in the morning any thing of the victim of the solemnity of the Phase.

Leviticus 1:13
But the entrails and the feet they shall wash with water. And the priest shall offer it all and burn it all upon the altar for a holocaust, and most sweet savour to the Lord.

Leviticus 6:16
And the part of the flour that is left, Aaron and his sons shall eat, without leaven: and he shall eat it in the holy place of the court of the tabernacle.

Leviticus 6:17
And therefore it shall not be leavened, because part thereof is offered for the burnt sacrifice of the Lord. It shall be most holy, as that which is offered for sin and for trespass.

Leviticus 2:10
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