Animals for sacrifices

[NewCreation435]

I was reading the early part of Leviticus and it was talking about the burnt offering of goats and bulls for the consecration ceremony for Aaron and his sons. It also mentioned the sacrifices the people were to bring for sin and wave and fellowship offerings. I am wondering where these animals mentioned in the early part of Leviticus are coming from if in Exodus 16 the people of God are not eating meat but are eating manna. I'm wondering how suddenly they have all of these animals to sacrifice?

 

[Messy]

I Googled it, but the christian answers made no sense, so I thought I'd ask the rabbi.

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/709027/jewish/Why-did-the-Israelites-ask-for-meat-when-they-had-cattle.htm

Why did the Israelites ask for meat when they had cattle?​

By Menachem Posner

The classic commentators ask the same question. Here are some of their answers:
Rabbi Chayim Atar1 tells us that in order to understand this, we must look carefully at their complaint:
"…when we sat by pots of meat, when we ate bread to our fill!"2
The complaint was that they missed sitting by their pots and eating bread while the meat was cooking.
Killing a large animal affords a person an abundance of food at one time. After that, since they didn't port refrigerators around in the wilderness, it had to be salted and eaten cold. The Israelites wanted smaller animals so they could enjoy fresh meat on demand.
In addition, they missed eating bread, something which they had no access to in the barren desert.
In the complaint recorded in the Torah we can see both demands: A. they wanted smaller animals which would afford them fresh meals which they would eat right off the fire and B. they wanted bread to eat while the meat was cooking.
Alternatively, the Rabbi Avraham Ibn Ezra3 suggests that they had already eaten a large portion of their cattle. A this point, if they would all go to purchase more meat at once, the price would skyrocket beyond their means.

 

[NewCreation435]

I could think of only three good possibilities
1. Moses had some animals separated for only sacrifices and they were off limits to eat/for food
2. They had received a large amount of animals from victories over their enemies in battle such as in Exodus 17:13
3. There was still a herd of goats and cattle from leaving Egypt

there are grain offering also mentioned in Leviticus which makes me wonder where they got grain from. Perhaps the Lord was thinking ahead to the days when they would have grain in the promise land.

 

[Odë:hgöd]

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Some of the sacrifices required the use of doves and young pigeons. Where'd they
get those?
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