what does: you shall not cook a young goat in its mothers milk, mean ?
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Question by 🙂: what does: you shall not cook a young goat in its mothers milk, mean ?
Its a jewish biblical quote
I know it means you shouldn’t cook meat in any dairy products but is there more to it ?
Does it mean anything else?
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8 Responses to what does: you shall not cook a young goat in its mothers milk, mean ?
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I have no idea what that means. It could be connected to what you thought, but it still doesn’t make sense to me.
davj61
December 28, 2013 at 4:13 am
There were Roman recipies that the early christians found abhorrent. That was one of them.
Another recipie called for, as the main ingredient, “a young, nursing puppy”.
Can’t say as how I would try it, but there are worse things to eat in the world….
The Canadian Atheist
December 28, 2013 at 5:05 am
Just a cooking suggestion
there are recipes and allsorts in the bible
foxhole atheist
December 28, 2013 at 5:36 am
This passage (Exodus 23:19) is taken literally by observant Jews to mean that meat and dairy should not be eaten at the same meal. However, biblical scholars assume that a more figurative interpretation would be to avoid cruelty. Other biblical scholars say that this is actually a reference to a pagan practice of boiling (the word used in the bible is “seethe”) a kid in its mother’s milk and sprinkling that milk on the fields to increase crop yields during the next growing season.
So arguably a more reasonable interpretation would be to avoid cruel pagan practices.
Lester G
December 28, 2013 at 6:22 am
Actually, there are several scriptures in the Bible that mention not cooking a young goat in its mother’s milk. Some of these are Exodus 23:19, Exodus 24:26, & Deuteronomy 14:21. This command was to encourage compassion. This would be in harmony with other commands that prohibited sacrificing an animal if it had not first been with its mother fo at least 7 days (Leviticus 22:27); slaughtering both the animal and its offspring on the same day, (Leviticus 22:28), or taking from a nest both a mother and its egg or offspring. (Deuteronomy 22:6&7) It doesn’t have anything to do with dairy products. It has everything to do with showing compassion.
Shar B
December 28, 2013 at 6:52 am
It’s not about keeping meat separate from dairy products as many Jews take it to mean (even to having two refrigerators – one for meat products, the other for dairy products). The context of the passage in Exodus 23:19 is about how to celebrate the three annual festivals when they go into the promised land; the feast of Unleavened Bread (at the beginning of the barley harvest and to commemorate the exodus from Egypt), the feast of Harvest (seven weeks later), and the feast of Ingathering (or Booths – mid September to mid October).
They would discover that the Canaanites had pagan rituals, some to do with seeking blessings on the land, sprinkling the land with juices from sacrificed animals. God repeated his warnings in chap. 34 vs 26. If you read the whole chapters (23 and 34) you will see how this fits into the context of worshipping Yahweh his way, to set themselves apart from the paganism of the peoples around them.
Sasi
December 28, 2013 at 7:28 am
I think that’s a censored view from the past. thar I see is a individual taste.
Jesse V
December 28, 2013 at 7:30 am
Why did the Law forbid boiling a kid in its mother’s milk?
Boiling a kid in its mother’s milk was prohibited under the Mosaic Law. (De 14:21) This prohibition is mentioned twice in connection with the giving of one’s firstfruits to God—Ex 23:19; 34:26.
It has been theorized that this practice had pagan, idolatrous, or magical connections. However, the evidence to support this view is not sound at present.
Another suggestion is that this statute emphasizes that there is a proper and fitting order in matters that should be adhered to. God provided the milk of the mother for the purpose of nourishing her young. To use it to boil her offspring to prepare it to be eaten would be to the kid’s harm and the opposite of what God had in mind when making provision for such milk.
A third possibility is that this command was given in order to encourage compassion. This would be in harmony with other commands that prohibited sacrificing an animal if it had not first been with its mother for at least seven days (Le 22:27), slaughtering both an animal and its offspring on the same day (Le 22:28), or taking from a nest both a mother and its eggs or offspring (De 22:6, 7).
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PETER
December 28, 2013 at 7:57 am