All the wave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to Yahweh, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever. It is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to your seed with you.”
⛓ Read Numbers 18 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The 'covenant of salt forever' between the LORD and the priests illuminates 'have salt in yourselves, and be at peace,' linking salt to enduring covenant fidelity. The covenant-of-salt motif undergirds the call to mutual peace. It strengthens the cultic-covenantal reading of the salt sayings.
Medium confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The 'covenant of salt forever before the Lord' given to the priests defines salt as a symbol of permanent, unbreakable covenant — the very quality lost when salt goes flat. Coherent with the disqualification-from-covenant-service theme and reinforces Lev 2:13's availability.
Medium confidence'A covenant of salt forever' — salt symbolizing enduring covenant loyalty, the failure of which (losing savor) is the warning.
Medium confidenceReinforces the 'covenant of salt' background for 'seasoned with salt' — 'a covenant of salt forever before the LORD.' Salt symbolizes an inviolable, perpetual bond, fitting speech meant to build and preserve relationship with outsiders. Faint, recurrence-based support for the Lev 2:13 allusion rather than an independent source.
Low confidence