Holy Scripture

Exodus 23:19

A church father on this verse
“Our physical nature rebels against the thought of making the nourishment of the living a garnish for the dead or the cause of life an accessory to the death of the body.”
Clement of Alexandria, 3th c. — The Stromata Book 2

Source: Septuagint

Original

19Thou shalt bring the first offerings of the firstfruits of thy land into the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a lamb in its mother’s milk.

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In context

17Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God.

18For when I shall have cast out the nations from before thee, and shall have widened thy borders, thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven, neither must the fat of my feast abide till the morning.

— Exodus 23:19 —

20And, behold, I send my angel before thy face, that he may keep thee in the way, that he may bring thee into the land which I have prepared for thee.

21Take heed to thyself and hearken to him, and disobey him not; for he will not give way to thee, for my name is on him.

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