5 Mosebok 14:21

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Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

any thing: Leviticus 17:15, Leviticus 22:8, Ezekiel 4:14, Acts 15:20

the stranger: Exodus 12:43-45, Leviticus 19:33, Leviticus 19:34

an holy: Deuteronomy 14:2, Daniel 8:24, Daniel 12:7, 1 Peter 1:16

Thou shalt: Exodus 23:19, Exodus 34:26, Romans 12:2

Reciprocal: Genesis 9:4 - the life Exodus 19:5 - a peculiar Exodus 22:31 - holy Leviticus 7:24 - beast Leviticus 11:40 - eateth Leviticus 22:28 - ye shall not kill it Deuteronomy 23:20 - a stranger Isaiah 65:4 - broth Ezekiel 44:31 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself,.... This law is repeated from Leviticus 17:15,

Leviticus 17:15- ::

thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; not to the proselyte of righteousness, for he might not eat of it any more than an Israelite, and if he did, he was obliged to wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and was unclean until the evening, as in Leviticus 17:15 but to a proselyte of the gate, who took upon him, as Jarchi observes, not to serve idols, one that has renounced idolatry, but has not embraced the Jewish religion; such an one might eat of things that died of themselves, or were not killed in a proper manner. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan call him an uncircumcised stranger or proselyte, who had not submitted to circumcision, as the proselyte of righteousness did:

or thou mayest sell it unto an alien; an idolater, one that was neither a proselyte of righteousness nor of the gate, an entire alien from the commonwealth of Israel; one that was occasionally in the land of Canaan, or was travelling in it or through it, to such an one it might be sold:

for thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God; separated from all others, and devoted to his service, and therefore must live on clean, food and good meat, and not eat what others might:

thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk; this is the third time this law is mentioned; refer to the notes, Leviticus 17:15- :,

Leviticus 17:15- :; the reason of which repetition, the Jewish writers say s, is, that it is once said to forbid the eating it, a second time to forbid any use of it or profit by it, and a third time to forbid the boiling of it.

s Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Kiddushin, c. 2. sect. 9.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Leviticus 11:0. The variations here, whether omissions or additions, are probably to be explained by the time and circumstances of the speaker.

Deuteronomy 14:5

The “pygarg” is a species of gazelle, and the “wild ox” and “chamois” are swift types of antelope.

Deuteronomy 14:21

The prohibition is repeated from Leviticus 22:8. The directions as to the disposal of the carcass are unique to Deuteronomy, and their motive is clear. To have forbidden the people either themselves to eat that which had died, or to allow any others to do so, would have involved loss of property, and consequent temptation to an infraction of the command. The permissions now for the first time granted would have been useless in the wilderness. During the 40 years’ wandering there could be but little opportunity of selling such carcasses; while non-Israelites living in the camp would in such a matter be bound by the same rules as the Israelites Leviticus 17:15; Leviticus 24:22. Further, it would seem (compare Leviticus 17:15) that greater stringency is here given to the requirement of abstinence from that which had died of itself. Probably on this, as on so many other points, allowance was made for the circumstances of the people. Flesh meat was no doubt often scarce in the desert. It would therefore have been a hardship to forbid entirely the use of that which had not been killed. However, now that the plenty of the promised land was before them, the modified toleration of this unholy food was withdrawn.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 14:21. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. — Mr. Calmet thinks that this precept refers to the paschal lamb only, which was not to be offered to God till it was weaned from its mother; but Exodus 23:19.