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In the Bible, salt stands for what lasts. Because salt seasons food and keeps it from spoiling, God calls a lasting promise “a covenant of salt for ever” (Numbers 18:19). Salt also marks ruin, as in the land of Sodom and the pillar that was Lot’s wife, and Jesus calls his disciples “the salt of the earth” (Matthew 5:13). Think of salt, then, as the thing that does not go bad. Israel put it on every offering and on every…