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Ezekiel 43:24

You shall bring them near to Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to Yahweh.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    You shall bring them near to Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to Yahweh.

  • KJV King James Version

    And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And thou shalt present them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt-offering unto the LORD.

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Cross-references (6)

Passages linked to Ezekiel 43:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Leviticus 2:13 Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt. You shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.
  • Mark 9:49-50 For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
  • Numbers 18:19 All the wave offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel offer to Yahweh, I have 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 offspring with you.”
  • Colossians 4:6 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
  • 2 Chronicles 13:5 Ought you not to know that Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
  • Matthew 5:13 “You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

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Explain this verse (6 sources)

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 43:24 And thou shalt offer them before the…

Eze 43:24 And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up [for] a burnt offering unto the LORD.

Ver. 24. And the priests shall cast salt upon them.] Christians must "have salt {a} within themselves," {Mar 9:50} and see to it that all their speeches be seasoned with the salt of mortification and discretion; {Eph 4:29 Col 4:6} so shall God make an everlasting covenant with them, even a "covenant of salt." See Lev 2:13.

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{a} Plato sal nominat Yεοφιλεστατον diis churis. Nihil utilius sale ac sole. - Coel. Rhodig., lib. vi. cap. 1.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Thou shalt offer; direct them to offer.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And thou shalt offer them before the Lord,.... Upon…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Shalt offer - Direct them to offer. Salt -…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 24. The burnt-offering was wholly consumed on the altar,…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (24) Cast salt.—The word means throw or pour, indicating…

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