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You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground into the house of the LORD your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
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Verse 19. Dam. The paschal victim must not be so young as to be still suckled. The Sam. subjoins, “Because that would be like immolating an animal found dead, and the God of Jacob hates it.” Calmet.—Some imagine that this law alludes to a superstitious custom of the pagans, (Spencer Rit. ii. 8,) or it forbids eating animals while they are, as it were, all milk, not eight days old. Rivet.
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