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11 No cereal offering that you bring to the Lord shall be made with leaven, for you shall burn no leaven or honey in any offering made by fire to the Lord.(A)

12 As an offering of firstfruits you may offer leaven and honey to the Lord, but [a]they shall not be burned on the altar for a sweet odor [to the Lord, for their aid to fermentation is symbolic of corruption in the human heart].

13 Every cereal offering you shall season with salt [symbol of preservation]; neither shall you allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your cereal offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 2:12 There is to be no division between one’s spiritual life and one’s secular life, but the whole of one’s life is to be of the nature of a sacrament (Col. 3:23, 24).

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