Don’t eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 9. Raw. Some nations delighted in raw flesh, in the feasts of Bacchus, who hence received the title of Omadios. Porphyr. de Abstin. 3. The Hebrew term na occurs no where else, and may perhaps signify half-roasted or boiled, semicoctum. It cannot be inferred from this prohibition, that the Hebrews commonly lived on such food.—In water, as the other victims usually were, 1 Kennicott. 2:13. 2 Chronicles 35:13.—You shall eat, is not in the original, nor in the Septuagint We may supply it, however, or “you shall roast all, head,” and so forth but in eating, you shall avoid breaking any bone, as the Septuagint and Syr. express it, (verse 10,) and as we read, verse 46, and Numbers 9:12. These were to be burnt, that they might not be profaned. Calmet.