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Every offering of your meal-offering shall you season with salt; neither shall you allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal-offering: with all your offerings you shall offer salt.
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The 'Covenant of Salt'
Scholars explain that salt was a powerful symbol of an unbreakable, everlasting agreement. The phrase 'covenant of salt' signified a durable and faithful relationship. By requiring salt in every offering, God visually represented the permanence and incorruptibility of His promises and love for His people, reminding them of the indissoluble nature of their bond with Him.
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Leviticus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
With all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt - Not only every מנחה mı̂nchāh — but every animal offering was to …
19th Century
Anglican
And every oblation. —But salt, which is the contrary to leaven, and which preserves from putrefaction and corruption, was…
16th Century
Protestant
And every oblation of your meat-offering. The reason for salting the victims was very similar, namely, that God’s service might not be wit…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And every oblation of your meat offering you shall season with salt Which makes food …
Salt is required in all the offerings. God thereby indicates to them that their sacrifices, in themselves, were unsavory. All religious services mu…
