Leviticus 2
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Flour, Oil, and Salt

The one offering with no animal in it. Fine flour, oil and frankincense — baked, griddled or fried, the chapter allows all three — with a handful burned and the rest going to the priests. KJV calls it a meat offering, which misleads modern readers badly: “meat” is the old English word for food in general. The Hebrew is minchah, and everywhere else in the Bible that word means a gift or a tribute — what Ehud carries to the king of Moab, what Hoshea sends to Assyria. Two rules govern what may go on the altar and they point the same way: no leaven and no honey, both of which ferment; and salt on everything, which is what stops things rotting. The verse calls it the salt of the covenant.

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