"And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant …" — Leviticus 2:13

Leviticus 2:13 · KJV

“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.”

— Leviticus 2:13

Verse 12

As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto the LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savour. {be burnt: Heb. ascend}

Verse 14

And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the LORD, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, {even} corn beaten out of full ears.

Leviticus 2 — Context

No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.

As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto the LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savour. {be burnt: Heb. ascend}

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.

And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it {is} a meat offering.

Cross References

Ezekiel 43:24

And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up {for} a burnt offering unto the LORD.

Matthew 5:13

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Colossians 4:6

Let your speech {be} alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

Mark 9:49-50

For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.

Numbers 18:19

All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it {is} a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.

2 Chronicles 13:5

Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, {even} to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

Ezra 7:22

Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing {how much}. {measures: Chaldee, cors}