Deuteronomy 14:21
ContextNETBible | You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages 1 and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the Lord your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. 2 |
XREF | Ex 12:43-45; Ex 23:19; Ex 34:26; Le 17:15; Le 19:33,34; Le 22:8; De 14:2; Eze 4:14; Da 8:24; Da 12:7; Ac 15:20; Ro 12:2; 1Pe 1:16 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “gates” (also in vv. 27, 28, 29). 2 sn Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. This strange prohibition – one whose rationale is unclear but probably related to pagan ritual – may seem out of place here but actually is not for the following reasons: (1) the passage as a whole opens with a prohibition against heathen mourning rites (i.e., death, vv. 1-2) and closes with what appear to be birth and infancy rites. (2) In the other two places where the stipulation occurs (Exod 23:19 and Exod 34:26) it similarly concludes major sections. (3) Whatever the practice signified it clearly was abhorrent to the |