EXODUS 34:26 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.”
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. The firstfruits command and the goat-in-milk prohibition are reissued as in Exodus 23:19. The firstfruits principle — bring the best of the first to God — is the positive covenant principle; the goat-in-milk prohibition guards a boundary against a specific confusion of life and death. Together they represent the comprehensive claim of covenant worship: the first and best belongs to God, and the boundaries He establishes must not be transgressed.
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