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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.(A)

14 If you offer a cereal offering of your firstfruits to the Lord, you shall offer for it of your firstfruits grain in the ear parched with fire, bruised and crushed grain out of the fresh and fruitful ear.

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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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