Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version 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. New Living Translation Season all your grain offerings with salt to remind you of God’s eternal covenant. Never forget to add salt to your grain offerings. English Standard Version You shall season all your grain offerings with salt. You shall not let the salt of the covenant with your God be missing from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt. 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. King James Bible 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. New King James Version And every offering of your grain offering you shall season with salt; you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your grain offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt. New American Standard Bible Every grain offering of yours, moreover, you shall season with salt, so that the salt of the covenant of your God will not be lacking from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt. NASB 1995 ‘Every grain offering of yours, moreover, you shall season with salt, so that the salt of the covenant of your God shall not be lacking from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt. NASB 1977 ‘Every grain offering of yours, moreover, you shall season with salt, so that the salt of the covenant of your God shall not be lacking from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt. Legacy Standard Bible Every grain offering of yours, moreover, you shall season with salt, so that the salt of the covenant of your God shall not be lacking from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall bring salt near. Amplified Bible You shall season every grain offering with salt so that the salt (preservation) of the covenant of your God will not be missing from your grain offering. You shall offer salt with all your offerings. Christian Standard Bible You are to season each of your grain offerings with salt; you must not omit from your grain offering the salt of the covenant with your God. You are to present salt with each of your offerings. Holman Christian Standard Bible You are to season each of your grain offerings with salt; you must not omit from your grain offering the salt of the covenant with your God. You are to present salt with each of your offerings.” 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. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And you shall salt all gifts of your meal offering with salt and you shall not lack the salt of the covenant of your God from your meal offering; you shall bring salt on all your offerings. Brenton Septuagint Translation And every gift of your sacrifice shall be seasoned with salt; omit not the salt of the covenant of the Lord from your sacrifices: on every gift of yours ye shall offer salt to the Lord your God. Contemporary English Version Salt is offered when you make an agreement with me, so sprinkle salt on these sacrifices. Douay-Rheims Bible Whatsoever sacrifice thou offerest, thou shalt season it with salt, neither shalt thou take away the salt of the covenant of thy God from thy sacrifice. In all thy oblations thou shalt offer salt. English Revised 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. GOD'S WORD® Translation Also put salt on each of your grain offerings. The salt of God's promise must never be left out of your grain offerings. Put salt on all your offerings. Good News Translation Put salt on every grain offering, because salt represents the covenant between you and God. (You must put salt on all your offerings.) International Standard Version "Also, be sure to rub every offering from your grain offering with salt. You are not ever to remove the salt of the covenant of your God from your grain offering. Present all your offerings with salt." JPS Tanakh 1917 And every meal-offering of thine 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 thy offerings thou shalt offer salt. Literal Standard Version And every offering—your present—you season with salt, and you do not let the salt of the covenant of your God cease from your present; you bring salt near with all your offerings. Majority 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. New American Bible You shall season all your grain offerings with salt. Do not let the salt of the covenant with your God be lacking from your grain offering. On every offering you shall offer salt. NET Bible Moreover, you must season every one of your grain offerings with salt; you must not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be missing from your grain offering--on every one of your grain offerings you must present salt. New Revised Standard Version You shall not omit from your grain offerings the salt of the covenant with your God; with all your offerings you shall offer salt. New Heart 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. Webster's Bible Translation 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 thy offerings thou shalt offer salt. World English Bible Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt. You shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt. 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. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Laws for Grain Offerings…12You may bring them to the LORD as an offering of firstfruits, but they are not to be offered on the altar as a pleasing aroma. 13And 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. 14If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer crushed heads of new grain roasted on the fire.… Cross References Numbers 18:19 All the holy offerings that the Israelites present to the LORD I give to you and to your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. It is a permanent covenant of salt before the LORD for you and your offspring." 2 Chronicles 13:5 Do you not know that the LORD, the God of Israel, has given the kingship of Israel to David and his descendants forever by a covenant of salt? Ezekiel 43:24 You must present them before the LORD; the priests are to sprinkle salt on them and sacrifice them as a burnt offering to the LORD. Treasury of Scripture And every oblation of your meat offering shall you season with salt; neither shall you suffer the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meat offering: with all your offerings you shall offer salt. with 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. 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. the 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? with all thine 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. Jump to Previous Add Agreement Allow Cereal Covenant Grain Lacking Meal Meal-Offering Meat Meat-Offering Moreover Oblation Oblations Offer Offering Offerings Salt Salted Season SufferJump to Next Add Agreement Allow Cereal Covenant Grain Lacking Meal Meal-Offering Meat Meat-Offering Moreover Oblation Oblations Offer Offering Offerings Salt Salted Season SufferLeviticus 2 1. The meat offering with oil and incense4. either baked in the oven 5. or on a plate 7. or in a frying pan 12. The first fruits not to be burnt on the altar, 13. Salt to be used with every offering 14. The offering of first fruits (13) And every oblation.--But salt, which is the contrary to leaven, and which preserves from putrefaction and corruption, was to be an ingredient, not only of bloodless, but of all animal sacrifices (Ezekiel 43:24). The salt of the covenant of thy God.--From its antiseptic and savoury qualities, salt became the symbol of hospitality, friendship, durability, fidelity. "To eat bread and salt together" is, in the East, an expression for a league of mutual amity (Russell, Aleppo, i. 232). When the Arabs make a covenant together, they put salt on the blade of a sword, from whence every one puts a little into his mouth. This constitutes them blood relations, and they remain faithful to each other even when in danger of life (Ritter, Erd. 14:960). Hence the expression "a covenant of salt," which also occurs in Numbers 18:19, and 2Chronicles 13:5, denotes an indissoluble alliance, an everlasting covenant. Hence, too, the phrase "salted with the salt of the palace" (Ezra 4:14) means bound by sacred obligations of fidelity to the king. Verse 13. - Every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt. Salt is commanded as symbolizing in things spiritual, because preserving in things physical, incorruption (cf. Matthew 5:13; Mark 9:49; Luke 14:34; Colossians 4:6). It is an emblem of an established and enduring covenant, such as God's covenant with his people, which is never to wax old and be destroyed, and it is therefore termed the salt of the covenant of thy God. Hence "a covenant of salt" came to mean a covenant that should not be broken (Numbers 18:19; 2 Chronicles 13:5). The use of salt is not confined to the meat offering. With all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt. Accordingly we find in Ezekiel 43:24, "The priest shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering."Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew And you shall seasonתִּמְלָח֒ (tim·lāḥ) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 4414: To rub to pieces, pulverize, to disappear as dust, to salt each וְכָל־ (wə·ḵāl) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every of your grain offerings קָרְבַּ֣ן (qā·rə·ban) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 7133: Something brought near the altar, a sacrificial present with salt; בַּמֶּ֣לַח (bam·me·laḥ) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4417: Powder, salt you must not וְלֹ֣א (wə·lō) Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no leave תַשְׁבִּ֗ית (ṯaš·bîṯ) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 7673: To repose, desist from exertion the salt מֶ֚לַח (me·laḥ) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 4417: Powder, salt of the covenant בְּרִ֣ית (bə·rîṯ) Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 1285: A covenant of your God אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ (’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative out of מֵעַ֖ל (mê·‘al) Preposition-m Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against your grain offering— מִנְחָתֶ֑ךָ (min·ḥā·ṯe·ḵā) Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 4503: A donation, tribute, a sacrificial offering you are to add תַּקְרִ֥יב (taq·rîḇ) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 7126: To come near, approach salt מֶֽלַח׃ (me·laḥ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4417: Powder, salt to עַ֥ל (‘al) Preposition Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against each כָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every of your offerings. קָרְבָּנְךָ֖ (qā·rə·bā·nə·ḵā) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 7133: Something brought near the altar, a sacrificial present Links Leviticus 2:13 NIVLeviticus 2:13 NLT Leviticus 2:13 ESV Leviticus 2:13 NASB Leviticus 2:13 KJV Leviticus 2:13 BibleApps.com Leviticus 2:13 Biblia Paralela Leviticus 2:13 Chinese Bible Leviticus 2:13 French Bible Leviticus 2:13 Catholic Bible OT Law: Leviticus 2:13 Every offering of your meal offering you (Le Lv Lev.) |
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