Numbers 18:19 - Exposition

All the heave offerings of the holy things. Those, viz; enumerated from Numbers 18:9 . It is a covenant of salt for ever. Septuagint, διαθήκη ἀλὸς αἰωνίου ( cf. 2 Chronicles 13:5 ). Salt was the natural emblem of that which is incorruptible; wherefore a binding alliance was (and still is) made by eating bread and salt together, and salt was always added to the sacrifices of the Lord.