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.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall bring them near to Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
- BSB 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.
- NKJV When you offer them before the Lord, the priests shall throw salt on them, and they will offer them up as a burnt offering to the Lord.
- NASB You shall offer them before the Lord, and the priests shall throw salt on them, and they shall offer them up as a burnt offering to the Lord.
- NLT You are to present them to the Lord, and the priests are to sprinkle salt on them and offer them as a burnt offering to the Lord.
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The priests salt the offerings and present them as a burnt offering to the Lord.
Overview
Salt accompanied offerings as a sign of the enduring 'covenant of salt' and the purity and permanence of God's relationship with His people (Leviticus 2:13). The burnt offering, wholly consumed, symbolized complete devotion to God. Such total self-giving is perfectly realized in Christ's full surrender to the Father's will.
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- Lev 2:13And 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.
- Mark 9:49–50For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
- Col 4:6Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
- Num 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.
- Matt 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.
- 2 Chr 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?
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