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והקריב המקריב THEN SHALL HE THAT OFFERETH [HIS OFFERING BRING A MEAL OFFERING etc.] — i.e. you shall offer a drink-offering and a meal-offering for each and every animal: the meal-offering to be entirely burnt, and the oil be mingled with it, and the wine to be put into the basins from which it was poured upon the altar (but see Tosafot on Sukkah 48a), as we have learnt in Treatise Sukkah 48a.

והקריב המקריב קרבנו, When the person offering his sacrifice is about to do so, etc. An examination of the relative amounts of oil which are to be part of the meal-offerings appears at first glance to be proportional to the amounts of solids used in those offerings, i.e. the amount of flour. Similarly, the amount of wine which accompanies an animal sacrifice as a drink-offering is also proportional to the size of the animal being offered as a sacrifice. Why does the Torah make an exception to these proportions (compare verse 6) in our verse when the amount of flour used in the meal-offering is one tenth of an eyphah, i.e. a quarter hin which is equivalent to three lugin? [this is a proportionally much larger amount of oil than with other sacrifices. Ed.] Please refer to the Mishnah in Menachot 107. Maimonides writes in chapter 17 of his treatise on Maaseh Hakorbanot that "someone may voluntarily donate, or promise by means of a vow, a drink-offering to consist only out of wine, provided the minimum quantity is two lugin. He is not allowed to donate an offering consisting entirely out of oil even if the quantity is 2 lugin oil, as we do not find meal-offerings containing such a small amount of oil. One may also not donate one log or two lugin wine, however, as the drink-offerings accompanying animal offerings require larger amounts of wine than that." Thus far Maimonides on the subject. This may be the reason why in our verse the Torah is not satisfied with the person offering the meal-offering donating two lugin oil to be mixed with the tenth of the eyphah of flour although when the amount of flour in the meal-offering consists of two tenths eyphah of flour, the Torah had stated that 4 lugin oil are required. This is to teach you that a drink-offering of wine must not consist of less than two lugin of wine.

סולת עשרון בלול ברביעית ההין, “a tenth eyfah fine flour mixed with a quarter hin of oil.” It is peculiar that our verse gives us a relationship between the amount of oil needed to mix with the amount of flour that does not correspond to standard relationships we find elsewhere. If the example described here were a standard example, why would we find that in the case of the libations accompanying offerings consisting of varying sizes of four-legged animals the libations brought with an offering consisting of a ram where two tenths of an eyfah of flour are used instead of half a hin of oil only a third of a hin is required; similarly when the libation of an offering consisting of a bull is described the Torah decrees three tenths of an eyfah of flour to be mixed with only half a hin of oil? Perhaps, although in order to mix the flour thoroughly with oil, in the example mentioned in our verse a quarter of a hin of oil is required, when the quantity of flour is greater, the need to increase the proportionate amount of oil decreases gradually.