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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · Cross-reference reference work
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seven days: It was necessary for the mother's health that the young one should suck so long; and prior to this time, the process of nutrition in a young animal can scarcely be considered as completely formed. Besides this, it may justly be asserted, that the flesh of very young animals is comparatively innutritive. There is something brutish in eating the young of beast or fowl, before the hair and hoofs are perfect in the one, and feathers and claws in the other; and before this period, their flesh is not good for food, consequently they were not fit for sacrifice, which is termed the bread or food of God ( Lev 22:25). Lev 22:25, Lev 12:2, Lev 12:3, Lev 19:23, Lev 19:24; Exo 22:30 Leviticus 22:28
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