KJV King James Version
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.
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Leviticus 2:13
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And you shall season each of your grain offerings with salt. You must not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering; you are to add salt to each of your offerings.
WEB World English Bible
Every offering of your meal offering you shall 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.
ASV American Standard Version
And every oblation of thy meal-offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meal-offering: with all thine oblations thou shalt offer salt.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And every offering—thy present—with salt thou dost season, and thou dost not let the salt of the covenant of thy God cease from thy present; with all thine offerings thou dost bring near salt.
Surrounding context — Leviticus 2
10 And that which is left of the meat offering [shall be] Aaron’s and his sons’: [it is] a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.
11 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.
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.
13 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.
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.
15 And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it [is] a meat offering.
16 And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, [part] of the beaten corn thereof, and [part] of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: [it is] an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
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וְכָל־H3605 · kolallקָרְבַּ֣ןH7133 · qor.banofferingמִנְחָתְךָ֮H4503 · min.chahofferingבַּמֶּ֣לַחH4417 · me.lachSalt (Sea)תִּמְלָח֒H4414 · ma.lachto dissipateוְלֹ֣אH3808 · lonotתַשְׁבִּ֗יתH7673 · sha.vatto ceaseמֶ֚לַחH4417 · me.lachSalt (Sea)בְּרִ֣יתH1285 · be.ritcovenantאֱלֹהֶ֔יךָH430 · e.lo.himGodמֵעַ֖לH5921 · aluponמִנְחָתֶ֑ךָH4503 · min.chahofferingעַ֥לH5921 · aluponכָּל־H3605 · kolallקָרְבָּנְךָ֖H7133 · qor.banofferingתַּקְרִ֥יבH7126 · qa.ravto present: comeמֶֽלַח׃ סH4417 · me.lachSalt (Sea)
Cross-references
Ezekiel 43:24And 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 5:13Ye 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 4:6Let your speech [be] alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.Mark 9:49-50For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.Numbers 18:19All 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 13:5Ought 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 7:22Unto 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].
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