Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk / Commentary
Apr 3, 2023 20:19:59 GMT -8
Post by Michael on Apr 3, 2023 20:19:59 GMT -8
Exodus 23
18 “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast.
“The fat of my festival offerings must not be kept until morning.
19 “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the Lord your God.
“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Exodus 34
25 “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Festival remain until morning.
26 “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the Lord your God.
“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
Deuteronomy 14
21 Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to the foreigner residing in any of your towns, and they may eat it, or you may sell it to any other foreigner. But you are a people holy to the Lord your God. Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
According to various Bible commentaries, the Pagans of that era and of that area had a fertility rite, which involved boiling a kid in its mother's milk and sprinkling it as a magic charm on their gardens and fields. They did this in the hope of increasing the yield of their crops.
Here is what The Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge says about Exodus 23:19:
A manuscript comment from a Karaïte Jew. “It was a custom with the ancient heathens, when they had gathered in all their fruits, to take a kid, and boil it in the dam's milk; and then in a magical way, to go about and sprinkle all their trees, and fields, and gardens, and orchards with it, thinking by these means, that they should make them fruitful, and bring forth more abundantly in the following year. Wherefore, God forbade his people, at the time of their in-gathering, to use any such superstitious or idolatrous rite.”
18 “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast.
“The fat of my festival offerings must not be kept until morning.
19 “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the Lord your God.
“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Exodus 34
25 “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Festival remain until morning.
26 “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the Lord your God.
“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
Deuteronomy 14
21 Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to the foreigner residing in any of your towns, and they may eat it, or you may sell it to any other foreigner. But you are a people holy to the Lord your God. Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
According to various Bible commentaries, the Pagans of that era and of that area had a fertility rite, which involved boiling a kid in its mother's milk and sprinkling it as a magic charm on their gardens and fields. They did this in the hope of increasing the yield of their crops.
Here is what The Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge says about Exodus 23:19:
A manuscript comment from a Karaïte Jew. “It was a custom with the ancient heathens, when they had gathered in all their fruits, to take a kid, and boil it in the dam's milk; and then in a magical way, to go about and sprinkle all their trees, and fields, and gardens, and orchards with it, thinking by these means, that they should make them fruitful, and bring forth more abundantly in the following year. Wherefore, God forbade his people, at the time of their in-gathering, to use any such superstitious or idolatrous rite.”