Exodus 23:19 (KJV)

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The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his other’s milk

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first of the. Ex 22:29 Ex 34:26 Le 23:10-17 Nu 18:12 Nu 18:13 De 12:5-7 De 26:10 Ne 10:35 1Co 15:20 Re 14:4

Thou shalt not seethe a kid.The true sense of this passage seems to be that assigned by Dr. Cudworth, from a MS. comment of a Karaïte Jew. "It was a custom with the ancient heathens, when they had gathered in all their fruits, to take a kid, and boil it in the dam's milk; and then in a magical way, to go about and sprinkle all their trees, and fields, and gardens, and orchards with it, thinking by these means, that they should make them fruitful, and bring forth more abundantly in the following year. Wherefore, God forbad his people, the Jews, at the time of their in-gathering, to use any such superstitious or idolatrous rite." Ex 34:26 De 14:21 Pr 12:10 Jer 10:3

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