“And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.”
Season all your grain offerings with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offerings; add salt to all your offerings. Salt is not optional in the grain offering — it is covenantally required. The salt of the covenant of your God is the only place in the Bible where salt is explicitly described as covenantal. Numbers 18:19 calls the priestly portions a salt covenant before the Lord. 2 Chronicles 13:5 refers to a salt covenant with David. Salt preserves against decay, prevents fermentation, and was used in covenant ceremonies to signify the permanence and incorruptibility of the agreement. The grain offering salted with the salt of the covenant is the grain offering that declares the covenant's permanent, incorruptible character.
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