salt
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13You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its saltiness, with what will it be salted? It is no longer useful at all, except to be cast out and trampled under by men.
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6Let your speech be ever graceful, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to respond to each person.
13Whatever sacrifice you will offer, you shall season it with salt; neither shall you take away the salt of the covenant of your God from your sacrifice. In all your oblations, you shall offer salt.
34Salt is good. But if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be seasoned? 35It is useful neither in soil, nor in manure, so instead, it shall be thrown away. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”
19All the first-fruits of the Sanctuary, which the sons of Israel offer to the Lord, I have given to you and to your sons as well as to your daughters, as a perpetual right. It is an everlasting covenant of salt before the Lord, for you and for your sons.”
5Are you ignorant that the Lord, the God of Israel, gave David the kingship over Israel for all time, to him and to his sons, by a covenant of salt?
6Or can one eat bland food, which is not seasoned with salt? Or can anyone taste that which, if tasted, causes death?
4And when you were born, on the day of your nativity, your umbilical cord was not cut, and you were not washed with water for health, nor salted with salt, nor wrapped with cloths.
13You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its saltiness, with what will it be salted? It is no longer useful at all, except to be cast out and trampled under by men. 14You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden. 15And they do not light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, so that it may shine to all who are in the house. 16So then, let your light shine in the sight of men, so that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father, who is in heaven.
49Salt is good: but if the salt has become bland, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace among yourselves.”
9But if it may be necessary, let also calves, and lambs, and young goats for holocausts to the God of heaven, with grain, salt, wine, and oil, according to the rite of the priests who are in Jerusalem, be given to them for each day, so that there may be no complaint in anything.
20And so he said, “Bring a new vessel to me, and place salt in it.” And when they had brought it, 21he went out to the source of the waters, and he cast the salt into it. And he said: “Thus says the Lord: I have healed these waters, and no longer shall there be death or barrenness in them.” 22Then the waters were healed, even to this day, in accord with the word of Elisha, which he spoke.
26And his wife, looking behind herself, was turned into a statue of salt.
34Salt is good. But if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be seasoned?
49Salt is good: but if the salt has become bland, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace among yourselves.”
24And you shall offer them in the sight of the Lord. And the priests shall sprinkle salt over them, and they shall offer them as a holocaust to the Lord.
20And so he said, “Bring a new vessel to me, and place salt in it.” And when they had brought it, 21he went out to the source of the waters, and he cast the salt into it. And he said: “Thus says the Lord: I have healed these waters, and no longer shall there be death or barrenness in them.”