Salt in the Bible Salt covenant - that is a covenant that can never be broken. The fate of Lot's wife, being turned to a pillar of salt, is found in . This is the reason for the naming of the pillar on Mount Sodom, which is often called "Lot's Wife". Salt was cast on the burnt offering (Ezekiel 43:24) and was part of the incense (Exodus 30:35). Part of the temple offering included salt (Ezra 6:9). Salt was widely and variably used as a symbol and sacred sign in ancient Israel and illustrate salt as a covenant of friendship. In cultures throughout the
Bible translations into Icelandic Bible translations into Icelandic The New Testament was the first book printed in Icelandic. It was translated by Oddur Gottskálksson (whose father was Norwegian) and published in 1540 (text here). Forty-four years later the whole Bible was printed in Icelandic thanks to Guðbrandur Þorláksson, a Protestant bishop at Hólar. Afterwards, a number of other translations followed, such the "Waysenhússbiblía", a reworking of a 1644 Bible from Hólar and printed by G. F. Risel in Copenhagen. In 1813, in the same city, the British Bible Society published the "Grútarbiblía" (or "Hendersonsbiblía"), just two years before the founding of the Icelandic Bible