Deuteronomy 14
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Summary
The Israelites are the children of the Lord. All unclean beasts are not to be eaten by them. The Israelites are to be tithed based on their increase.
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| (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. | (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 not sell it unto an alien: for thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk. |
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George A. Horton Jr., “Insights into Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy,” in The Joseph Smith Translation: The Restoration of Plain and Precious Truths, ed. Monte S. Nyman and Robert L. Millet (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1985), 71–88.
Jacob Milgrom, “Milk and Meat: Unlikely Bedfellows,” in By Study and Also by Faith: Essays in Honor of Hugh W. Nibley, 2 vols., ed. John M. Lundquist and Stephen D. Ricks (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company; Provo, UT: FARMS, 1990), 1:144–154.
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