Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on Exodus 23:19

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first of the: Exo 22:29, Exo 34:26; Lev 23:10-17; Num 18:12, Num 18:13; Deu 12:5-7, Deu 26:10; Neh 10:35; Co1 15:20; Rev 14:4 Thou shalt not seethe a kid: The true sense of this passage seems to be that assigned by Dr. Cudworth, from a manuscript comment of a Karaite 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." Exo 34:26; Deu 14:21; Pro 12:10; Jer 10:3 Exodus 23:20

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