Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to an alien living in any of your towns, and he or she may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. But you are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk — the carrion prohibition (eating already-dead animals) protects holiness. Foreigners and aliens may eat such meat (they are not bound by Israel's holiness laws), and commerce in carrion is permitted. The final prohibition (cooking a goat in mother's milk) is enigmatic but appears to forbid mixing life-giving substance with the consumed young, or perhaps to prohibit pagan ritual practice.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

Publish a note on this verse