Don’t boil a kid in its mother’s milk.
Posted on | April 25, 2008 |
i was going through this in devotions this morning. What does it mean? Context helps us here:
In Deuteronomy 14 the broad context is what does it mean to take the Lord’s name (be a part of His people) and not do that in vain. Both in Deuteronomy 14 and Exo. 23 the immediate context is on tithing. Giving back to the Lord his due.
The picture also helps. The mother’s milk would be the sustenance provided for the kid as well as for the family. The kid is itself a picture of God’s provision through goat herding.
I think the meaning is that we should not use all of God’s provision for our own purposes because we are God’s people.
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July 11th, 2008 @ 9:07 am
Hey i was reading this scripture too and i had to do a research project on this. What i found was that the people at the time were boiling the kid in the goats milk in a pagan ritual to produce rain. As we know is Deut. 5:9 that god wants exclusive devotion. So doing this, they would be doing the exact opposite. Also the milk was used to nurture the kid and not to destroy it in boiling. This would be a mis-use of the order that god has established for the purpose of the milk. Also it shows his compassion. Hopefully that helped.
July 15th, 2008 @ 2:21 pm
Thanks Eric. I appreciate the perspective on pagan rituals. However, I question the “order” argument. Should we ever use milk to boil anything then? Seems that without some kind of limit this could be applied in any way you wanted. Textually and contextually the emphasis seems to be going slightly different than “order.” That’s why I used provision instead.