Exodus 34:26
in Exodus 34Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The first of the first-fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring unto the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.
KJV
The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
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This verse in Exodus 34
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Moses bowed . . . and worshipped--In the East, people bow the head to royalty, and are silent when it passes by, while in the West, they take off their hats and shout.
This site's exposition
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven
on Exodus 34:25-26
The passover rules of Exodus 12:8 to 12:10 are restated in a line, no leaven with the blood and nothing left until morning. The ban on seething a kid in its mother's milk stands here for the second of three times in the Torah, with Exodus 23:19 before it and Deuteronomy 14:21 after. Rabbinic law from the Mishnah onward reads that threefold repetition as the ground for keeping meat and milk apart, a ruling worked out in the tractate Chullin of the Babylonian Talmud. Christian commentators have more often read the line as a ban on a particular Canaanite practice, and the two readings have long stood side by side.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring,.... This, and another law in this verse, concerning not seething a kid in his mother's milk, are repeated from Exo 23:19. See Gill on Exo 23:19.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk - See this amply considered Exo 23:19 (note).
The words behind it
12 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| רֵאשִׁ֗ית | reshit | [the] first of | H7225 → | |
| בִּכּוּרֵי֙ | bikurei | [the] first-fruits of | H1061 → | 17 times |
| אַדְמָ֣תְךָ֔ | ʾadmatekha | ground your | H127 → | 225 times |
| תָּבִ֕יא | tavi' | you will bring | H935 → | 2568 times |
| בֵּ֖ית | beit | [the] house of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| יְהוָ֣ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ | ʾeloheikha | God your | H430 → | 2601 times |
| לֹא־ | lo'- | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תְבַשֵּׁ֥ל | tevashel | you will boil | H1310 → | 28 times |
| גְּדִ֖י | gedi | a kid | H1423 → | |
| בַּחֲלֵ֥ב | bachalev | in [the] milk of | H2461 → | 44 times |
| אִמּֽוֹ׃ פ | ʾimo | mother its | H517 → | 220 times |
רֵאשִׁ֗ית[the] first of
reshitH7225 →
בִּכּוּרֵי֙[the] first-fruits of
bikureiH1061 →17 times
אַדְמָ֣תְךָ֔ground your
ʾadmatekhaH127 →225 times
תָּבִ֕יאyou will bring
tavi'H935 →2568 times
בֵּ֖ית[the] house of
beitH1004 →2046 times
יְהוָ֣הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָGod your
ʾeloheikhaH430 →2601 times
לֹא־not
lo'-H3808 →5168 times
תְבַשֵּׁ֥לyou will boil
tevashelH1310 →28 times
גְּדִ֖יa kid
gediH1423 →
בַּחֲלֵ֥בin [the] milk of
bachalevH2461 →44 times
אִמּֽוֹ׃ פmother its
ʾimoH517 →220 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Matthew 6:33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
it leads to
- Luke 12:31
But seek His kingdom, and these things will be added unto you.
- Matthew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
- John 6:27
Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of…
- Psalms 34:9–10
Fear the LORD, you His saints, for those who fear Him lack nothing.
- Psalms 84:11–12
For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
- Luke 12:31
Through
Deuteronomy 14:21You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are…
it leads to
- Exodus 23:19
Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Exodus 23:19
Through
1 Corinthians 15:20But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
it leads to
- Revelation 1:5
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by…
- Acts 26:23
that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”
- Revelation 1:5
Where this verse is studied
About Exodus
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).