Contemplative Bible Reading

Leviticus 7:12 (New English Translation)

12 If he presents it on account of thanksgiving, along with the thank-offering sacrifice he must present unleavened loaves mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers smeared with olive oil, and well-soaked, ring-shaped loaves made of choice wheat flour mixed with olive oil.

I was reading the New English Translation when I read through this part of Leviticus. The is about the only translation that uses the phrase “well-soaked, ring-shaped loaves” made of choice wheat flour mixed with olive oil. Ring-shaped loaves? That sure sounds like a description of a bagel.

I looked around the Internet for commentaries on this. Was this the creation of the bagel? Those who discuss things like this certainly have discussed this thing. Modern historians note the bagel first appeared in Poland or some place in Europe just a couple hundred years ago. Yet here it is in front of us in this translation of the Bible. Sounds like a bagel as bagels are boiled and then baked.

Significance? I really can’t provide any. This was just a note of something unusual in one translation of the Bible.