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.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 13. Salt. In every sacrifice salt was to be used, which is an emblem of wisdom and discretion, without which none of our performances are agreeable to God. Challoner.—Salt is not prescribed in the sacrifices of animals. But it was to be used in them, as we learn from the Jews, and from Saint Mark 9:48. Every victim shall be salted. The ancient poets never specify salt in their descriptions of sacrifices. But Pliny assures us, that in his time it was of the greatest authority, and always used in sacrifice, with cakes. Maxime in sacris intelligebatur salis auctoritas, quando nulla conficiuntur sine molâ salsâ. B. xxxi. 7.—Covenant. It is so called, because it was a symbol of the durable condition of the alliance with God, which was renewed in every sacrifice; ( Calmet.) or it may signify “the salt prescribed” by God: for the law and covenant are often used synonymously. Menochius.—Let your speech be always in grace, seasoned with salt. Colossians 4:6. See Numbers 18:19.
The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).