Deuteronomy 14:12-22 –
But these you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture,
the black vulture, the red kite, the black kite, any kind of falcon, any
kind of raven, the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of
hawk, the little owl, the great owl, the white owl, the desert owl, the
osprey, the cormorant, the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the
bat. All flying insects are unclean to you; do not eat them. But any
winged creature that is clean you may eat. 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. Be sure to set aside a tenth of
all that your fields produce each year.
Exodus 23:19 – “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.
Leviticus
17:11 – For the life of a creature
is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make
atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for
one’s life.
Genesis 28:20-22 – Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and
clothes to wear so that I return safely to my father’s household, then the Lord will be my God and this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth.”
Application:
- · The reason for the prohibition “do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk” is uncertain, but it may be related to the prohibition against slaughtering a mother animal and its offspring.
- · Since life was sacred, blood had to be treated with respect. Eating blood was therefore strictly forbidden.
- · “Of all that you give me I will give you a tenth” was a way of acknowledging the Lord as His God and King.
All Scripture verses taken from NIV
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