an aroma pleasing to the Lord

Ha, this is interesting, salt of the covenant of God. Salt is a natural mineral found in dead seas. It is one of the best preservatives across centuries. It is also used for seasoning and many other purposes. It can kill germs, and keep food clean. Always add salt to your offerings, what does that mean? Salt can mean incorruptibility from salts' ability to keep bacteria our and permanence from salts' ability to keep food preserved. So i believe that that putting salt in our offerings meant that that offering should be sanctifying and permanent. When we offer something to God for fellowship, should not be permanent? When we offer something to God for sin offering should it not be incorruptible? We should always remember such and not get stuck in the sin repent sin cycle. Put Salt into your offerings!

¹³ Season all your grain offerings with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offerings; add salt to all your offerings.

It it also notable in the passages that the sin offering: young bull is the same offering for priest and for community. If the priest sins and the community sins the price of the offering is the same. While for the individual it is just a lamb. So, what is the significance of the young bull being the same? I believe that the 2 offerings are to be the same because the impact is about the same. The priest has influence over a lot of people and that is no difference when he sins because he can influence the whole community to sin. So it is no difference in the whole community sinning. See the part where Aaron made a golden calf. He as a leader(not a priest yet) have the capability to stop such sin but he did not.

Now this is the parallel between the old testament and what Jesus did on the cross:

³² “‘If someone brings a lamb as their sin offering, they are to bring a female without defect. ³³ They are to lay their hand on its head and slaughter it for a sin offering at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered. ³⁴ Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. ³⁵ They shall remove all the fat, just as the fat is removed from the lamb of the fellowship offering, and the priest shall burn it on the altar on top of the food offerings presented to the Lord. In this way the priest will make atonement for them for the sin they have committed, and they will be forgiven.

This is what we would have to do if Jesus did not come and die for our sins! This is the parallel. That is why we always say Jesus is the lamb. Because if he did not come then we would need to sacrifice lambs to atone for sin but he is the Lamb and the Lamb is slain so he already paid the ultimate atonement. Amen and Amen!