“Salt ¹  is good, but if salt loses its flavor, ²  how can its flavor be restored?

Can food that is tasteless ¹  be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white ²  of an egg?

“You are the salt ¹  of the earth. But if salt loses its flavor, ²  how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled on by people.

Salt ¹  is good, but if it loses its saltiness, ²  how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other.”

if he retains it for himself and does not let it go, and holds it fast in his mouth, ¹ 

Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles ¹  in the cup, when it goes down smoothly. ² 

“From its earliest days Moab has lived undisturbed. It has never been taken into exile. Its people are like wine allowed to settle undisturbed on its dregs, never poured out from one jar to another. They are like wine which tastes like it always did, whose aroma has remained unchanged. ¹