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.
⛓ Read Leviticus 2 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion4
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt' draws directly on the law that every grain offering be salted, never omitting the salt of the covenant. Mark's pairing of fire and salt with sacrifice reflects this cultic prescription. The verbal contact on salting the sacrifice is high.
High confidence'Let your speech... be gracious, seasoned with salt' evokes the 'covenant of salt' required on every grain offering: 'with all your offerings you shall offer salt.' Salt as a sign of permanence, fidelity, and covenant fellowship gives the metaphor of salted speech its OT depth. Volume is moderate and coherence good, since salt elsewhere figures preservation and bond (cf. the next entries).
Medium confidence'Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless...' draws on the covenant-of-salt requirement that every grain offering be seasoned with salt — salt as the indispensable mark of acceptable offering. Saltless disciples 'fit neither for soil nor manure pile' invert the covenant-of-salt's enduring fidelity.
Medium confidenceThe 'salt of the covenant' required with every grain offering; salt as covenant-fidelity image behind 'you are the salt of the earth.'
Medium confidence