Deuteronomy 14:21

_YE SHALL NOT EAT OF ANY THING THAT DIETH OF ITSELF: THOU SHALT GIVE IT UNTO THE STRANGER THAT IS IN THY GATES, THAT HE MAY EAT IT; OR THOU MAYEST SELL IT UNTO AN ALIEN: FOR THOU ART AN HOLY PEOPLE UNTO THE LORD THY GOD. THOU SHALT NOT SEETHE A KID IN HIS MOTHER'S MILK._ Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself - (see the notes at Leviticus 17:15; Leviticus 22:8.) THOU SHALT GIVE IT UNTO THE STRANGER - not a proselyte, because he, as well as an Israelite, was subject to this law; but a pagan traveler or sojourner. THOU SHALT NOT SEETHE A KID. This is the third place in which the prohibition is repeated. It was pointed against an annual pagan ceremony (see the notes at...

Deuteronomy 14:21._Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself. _The eating of any carcase, or of flesh torn by wild beasts, is reckoned among the causes of defilement; but we must understand it to be the carcase of an animal which has died of hunger or disease, for, from the nature of its death, it contracted impurity, although in itself it were otherwise pure. The end of the precept is gathered from the reason which is immediately subjoined, “for thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God,” and from the ablution which is prescribed in the passage from Leviticus. The same thing is, secondly, enjoined respecting flesh that has been torn, as before with regard to the carcase, for the deformity of its laceration is counted as uncleanness. The holiness of the people is again referred to, that they may more diligently beware of defilements. Hence it follows that those were conta

1-21 Moses tells the people of Israel how God had given them three distinguishing privileges, which were their honour, and figures of those spiritual blessings in heavenly things, with which God has in Christ blessed us. Here is election; "The Lord hath chosen thee." He did not choose them because they were by their own acts a peculiar people to him above other nations, but he chose them that they might be so by his grace; and thus were believers chosen, Ephesians 1:4. Here is adoption; "Ye are the children of the Lord your God;" not because God needed children, but because they were orphans, and needed a father. Every spiritual Israelite is indeed a child of God, a partaker of his nature and favour. Here is sanctification; "Thou art a holy people." God's people are required to be holy, and if they are holy, they are indebted to the grace God which makes them so. Those whom God chooses...

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....

Compare Leviticus 11. 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

EXPOSITION HEATHEN CUSTOMS OF MOURNING TO BE AVOIDED. NO ABOMINABLE THING TO BE EATEN. MEATS CLEAN AND UNCLEAN. TITHES. DEUTERONOMY 14:1 Israel, as the people of God, chosen by him to be his children by adoption, must not only abstain from idolatry, but also avoid all heathenish usages and practices, such as those connected with mourning for the dead, and those pertaining to the use of food. DEUTERONOMY 14:1 Ye a

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

10. THE CHILDREN OF GOD AND THEIR SEPARATION CHAPTER 14 _ 1. The declaration of relationship: A holy people (Deuteronomy 14:1)_ 2. Their food as a separated people (Deuteronomy 14:3) 3. Concerning tithes (Deuteronomy 14:22) Ye are the children of the Lord your God. Because God had chosen them to be a peculiar people unto Himself, above all the other nations, they were to be an holy people. To them belongeth still “the adoption” (Romans 9:4). God called Israel His firstborn son and that nation holds that place, in the divine purpose, among the nations. Sonship, in the New Testamen

Heathen customs to be avoided. Deuteronomy 14:1_ f._ Heathen mourning rites. Deuteronomy 14:1. cut yourselves: Leviticus 19:28 *, _cf_. Leviticus 21:5. BALDNESS: the custom in mourning of shaving the hair between the eyes (_i.e._ on the top of the forehead). These are merely extreme forms of expressing grief; but most recent scholars regard them as survivals of acts of sacrifice, the blood and the hair being offered up to heathen deities or to dead but deified ancestors (p. 110). See Jeremiah 16:6

DIETH, &C. Compare Exodus 22:31.Leviticus 11:39; Leviticus 17:15; Leviticus 22:8; Ezekiel 4:14. SEETHE. boil. Compare Exodus 23:19; Exodus 34:26....