Leviticus 22:28 BSB

Leviticus 22:28

But you must not slaughter an ox or a sheep on the same day as its young.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and its young both in one day.

KJV

And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day.

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Ye shall not kill it and her young in one day - This precept was certainly intended to inculcate mercy and tenderness of heart; and so the Jews understood it. When it is necessary to take away the lives of innocent animals for the support of our own, we should do it in such a way as not to blunt our moral feelings; and deplore the necessity, while we feel an express gratitude to God for permission, to do it.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְשׁ֖וֹר	ve.Shor	and an ox	H7794 →
אוֹ־	'ov-	or	H176 →
שֶׂ֑ה	Seh	a sheep	H7716 →
אֹת֣וֹ	'o.To	<obj.> it	H853 →
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
בְּנ֔וֹ	be.No	young its	H1121 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
תִשְׁחֲט֖וּ	tish.cha.Tu	you must cut [the] throat of	H7819 →
בְּי֥וֹם	be.Yom	in a day	H3117 →
אֶחָֽד׃	'e.Chad	one	H259 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
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.
leads to
- Exodus 34:26
  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 independent paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 14:21
  You 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…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 26:10
  And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land that You, O LORD, have given me.” Then you are to place the basket before the LORD your God and bow down before…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Nehemiah 10:35
  We will also bring the firstfruits of our land and of every fruit tree to the house of the LORD year by year.
- Exodus 22:29
  You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons.
Through
Deuteronomy 14:21
You 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…
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 independent paths from here.
- Leviticus 22:8
  He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, which would make him unclean. I am the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 14:2
  for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the…

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Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Leviticus

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Leviticus