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11 “Use no yeast with your offerings of flour; for no yeast or honey is permitted in burnt offerings to the Lord. 12 You may offer yeast bread and honey as thanksgiving offerings at harvest time, but not as burnt offerings.[a]

13 “Every offering must be seasoned with salt,[b] because the salt is a reminder of God’s covenant.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 2:12 but not as burnt offerings, literally, “but not for a sweet savor on the altar.”
  2. Leviticus 2:13 seasoned with salt. In many of the languages of the ancient Near East, the word salt is a homonym of the word good. It was used symbolically for goodness in making covenants.

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