All minchah-offerings are kneaded with lukewarm water, and one guards them from becoming leavened. If its remainder became leavened, he transgresses a prohibition; as it is written (Lev. 2:11): Any minchah-offering which you shall offer to HASHEM shall not be made leavened. And they are liable for its kneading, its arrangement, and for its baking.

There are [minchah-offerings] that require oil and frankincense; oil but not frankincense; frankincense but not oil; neither oil nor frankincense. The following require oil and frankincense: The minchah-offering of fine flour, the machavas [minchah-offering], the marcheshes [minchah-offering], the challos, the rekikin, the minchah-offering of Kohanim, the minchah-offering of the Anointed Kohen, the minchah-offering of gentiles, the minchahoffering of women, and the minchah-offering of the omer. The minchah-offering of libations requires oil but not frankincense. The lechem hapanim requires frankincense but not oil. The shtei halechem, the sinner’s minchah-offering, and the jealousy minchah-offering [require] neither oil nor frankincense.

He is liable for the oil by itself and on the frankincense by itself. [If] he placed oil upon it, he has invalidated it. [If he added] frankincense, he should remove it. [If] he placed oil on its remainder, he does not transgress a prohibition. [If] he placed a vessel upon a vessel, he does not invalidate it.

There are [minchah-offerings] that require bringing near but do not require waving; waving but not bringing near; bringing near and waving; neither waving nor bringing near. The following require bringing near but do not require waving: the minchah-offering of fine flour, the machavas, the marcheshes, the challos, the rekikin, the minchah-offering of Kohanim, the minchah-offering of the Anointed Kohen, the minchah-offering of gentiles, the minchah-offering of women, [and] the sinner’s minchah-offering. R’ Shimon says: The minchahoffering of Kohanim [and] the minchahoffering of the Anointed Kohen do not require being brought near, because they do not require kemitzah; and anything which does not require kemitzah does not require being brought near.

The following require waving but not bringing near: the log of oil of the metzora and his asham-offering, the bikkurim according to R’ Eliezer ben Yaakov, the sacrificial parts of an individual’s shelamim-offering and its breast and thigh [portions] — both [of] men and [of] women; of [male] Yisraelim, but not of others; the shtei halechem and the two lambs of Shavuos. How does he do [it]? He puts the shtei halechem on top of the two lambs and places his two hands beneath them. He extends and brings; raises and lowers; as it says (Ex. 29:27): Which was waved and which was raised. Waving was [done] in the east and bringing near in the west, and the wavings precede bringing near. The minchah of the omer and the jealousy minchahoffering require waving and bringing near. [But] the lechem hapanim and the minchah-offering of libations [require] neither waving nor bringing near.

R’ Shimon says: There are three types [of offerings], which [between them] require three procedures: two for each one, but not the third. They are: the individual’s shelamim-offerings, communal shelamim-offerings, and the asham-offering of the metzora. The individual’s shelamim-offerings require leaning while living and waving when slaughtered — but they do not require waving while living. Communal shelamim-offerings require waving while living and when slaughtered — but they do not require leaning. The asham-offering of the metzora requires leaning and waving while living — but it does not require waving when slaughtered.

R’ Shimon says: There are three types [of offerings], which [between them] require three procedures: two for each one, but not the third. They are: the individual’s shelamim-offerings, communal shelamim-offerings, and the asham-offering of the metzora. The individual’s shelamim-offerings require leaning while living and waving when slaughtered — but they do not require waving while living. Communal shelamim-offerings require waving while living and when slaughtered — but they do not require leaning. The asham-offering of the metzora requires leaning and waving while living — but it does not require waving when slaughtered.

[If] one said, ‘‘I take upon myself [to bring] in an oven,’’ he may not bring something baked in a small stove, [nor] one baked on tiles, [nor] one baked in an Arabian cauldron. R’ Yehudah says: If he wishes, he may bring that which is baked in a small stove. [If he said,] ‘‘I take upon myself [to bring] a baked minchah-offering,’’ he may not bring half as challos and half as rekikin. R’ Shimon permits [this] because it is one offering.

The following minchah-offerings require kemi tzah, and their remainders go to the Kohanim: the minchah-offering of fine flour, the machavas, the marcheshes, the challos, the rekikin, the minchahoffering of gentiles, the minchah-offering of women, the minchah-offering of the omer, the sinner’s minchah-offering, and the jealousy minchah-offering. R’ Shimon says: The sinner’s minchah-offering of Kohanim requires kemitzah, with the kometz being offered by itself and the remainder being offered by itself.

The minchah-offering of Kohanim, and the minchah-offering of the Anointed Kohen, and the libation minchah-offering belong to the Altar, and the Kohanim have no [share] in them. In this, the right of the Altar is greater than the right of the Kohanim. The shtei halechem and the lechem hapanim belong to the Kohanim, and the Altar has no share in them. In this, the right of the Kohanim is greater than the right of the Altar.

All minchah-offerings which are prepared in a vessel require three applications of oil: pouring, mixing, and placing oil in the vessel prior to their preparation. The challos, [however,] one mixes them; [these are] the words of Rabbi. But the Sages say: [As] fine flour. The challos require mixing and the rekikin are anointed. How are they anointed? Like a chi. The remainder of the oil is eaten by the Kohanim.

All minchah-offerings which are prepared in a vessel require breaking into pieces. The minchah-offering of a Yisrael one folds in two and the two into four, and separates [them]. The minchahoffering of the Kohanim one folds in two and the two into four, and one does not separate them. The minchah-offering of the Anointed Kohen he did not fold. R’ Shimon says: The minchah-offering of the Kohanim and the minchah-offering of the Anointed Kohen are not broken into pieces, since they do not require kemitzah; and whatever does not require kemitzah need not be broken into pieces. All of them are an olive’s volume.

All minchah-offerings require three hundred rubbings and five hundred poundings; and the rubbings and poundings are to the wheat. R’ Yose says: [Even] to the dough. All minchah-offerings are brought in groups of ten [loaves], except for the lechem hapanim and the chavitin of the Kohen Gadol, which are brought in [groups of] twelve; [these are] the words of R’ Yehudah. R’ Meir says: They are all brought in groups of twelve [loaves], except for the loaves of the todah-[offering] and the nazir’s [offering], which are brought in groups of ten.