Questions & Answers - Good News Staff - May 1976

Good News Staff

QUESTION: "Please explain Exodus 23:19: 'Thou shalt not seethe [boil] a kid In his mother's milk.' Is this verse saying It Is wrong to eat meat and milk together?" ANSWER: In analyzing the context of this particular verse, we notice that it does not refer to just any kind of meat or milk - but specifically to the meat of a kid seethed in its own mother's milk. The association of these two products of the mother's body suggests that this scripture is referring to something connected with pagan fertility rites. Peake's Commentary shows that this is so: "The significance of this prohibition has now been made clear by the Ras Shamra texts. According to the Birth of the Gods, i, 14, a kid was cooked in its mother's milk to procure the fertility of the fields, which were sprinkled with the substance which resulted" - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library