Exodus 22:30
so you do to your ox [and] to your sheep; it is with its mother [for] seven days, on the eighth day you give it to Me.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
29You do not delay your fullness and your liquids; you give the firstborn of your sons to Me;
31And you are holy men to Me, and you do not eat flesh torn in the field, you cast it to a dog.
Cross References
Exodus 13:12that you have caused everyone opening a womb to pass over to YHWH, and every firstling—the increase of beasts which you have: the males [are] YHWH’s.
Leviticus 7:24and the fat of a carcass, and the fat of a torn thing, is prepared for any work, but you certainly do not eat it;
Leviticus 11:44For I [am] your God YHWH, and you have sanctified yourselves, and you have been holy, for I [am] holy; and you do not defile your persons with any teeming thing which is creeping on the earth;
Leviticus 12:3and in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin is circumcised;
Leviticus 22:8he does not eat a carcass or torn thing, to become unclean with it; I [am] YHWH.
Deuteronomy 14:21You do not eat of any carcass; you give it to the sojourner who [is] within your gates, and he has eaten it; or sell [it] to a stranger; for you [are] a holy people to your God YHWH. You do not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 22:26-31
25 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. 26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: 27 For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious. 28 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people. 29 Thou… Read the whole commentary →