Don't Boil a Goat in Its Mother's Milk - by Jennifer Lang

 

DON’T BOIL A KID (GOAT) IN ITS MOTHER’S MILK

Concerning not boiling goats in their mothers’ milk, perhaps this sounds silly, as many who read this probably don’t have goats. But us country folks do. We take this law as is, plain and simple. If you have a young goat that you plan to eat, then don’t cook it in its mother’s milk. How hard is that to understand? But the Jewish people don’t eat any meat with any dairy products. In other words, they don’t eat cheeseburgers, pizzas with meat, beef tacos with cheese, etc. Can you imagine? And some take it further and do not mix poultry with dairy, even though chickens don’t produce milk! They think that by abstaining from food that Yahuwah actually permits they can attain a higher level of holiness.

Not only that, many of them take it further and use separate plates and utensils for each. I did home-health nursing job in a Jewish woman’s home once and she had two dishwashers, one for pots and pans and dishes that she used for meat, and the other for dairy. She put them away on opposite sides of the kitchen as well, and had two refrigerators, one for each! They will use stainless steel sinks because porcelain can’t be cleaned as well of contaminants. And their dishwashing soap has to not have any food byproducts in it. This is the kind of stuff some of the Jewish leaders promote, called ‘putting fences around the law’ (man-made dogma that was nailed to the cross) that makes Yahuwah’s law seem so hard to keep, until you realize that these additions are not part of Yahuwah’s laws and you don’t have to do them. I believe they are so afraid of breaking one of the commandments that they go way overboard with extra rules, like fences around them, to prevent this.

Guess what? Boiling kids in their mothers’ milk was used in idol worship outside of Israel. Now before I explain why they did this, I want to point out that since it plainly says not to boil a kid in its mother’s milk, then just don’t do that. If you have a young goat and want to eat it, cook it some other way than that, and if you’re milking your goats, I suggest you don’t use that milk with the goat meal. It seems cruel to take an offspring that is still nursing from its mother, and kill it and cook it in the milk that gave it life. Even cook it in cow’s milk if you wish, since there is no discrepancy of what the meanings of the words are, and it’s plain and simple. Go ahead and keep eating your beef cheeseburgers, pizzas, etc.

This verse shows that Yahuwah’s people DID eat meat and milk together. The restriction that Yahuwah gave them later was about goats, not other animals, and was because of the pagan practices.

Genesis 18:1-8 King James Version
6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.
7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.
8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.

But I’ll explain how this practice was used in paganism. When you start looking up these laws of the Old Testament, you’ll find that MANY of them have to do with not imitating what the pagans did when they worship their demon gods. Pagans STILL DO a lot of those practices, so we should take them seriously and study to show ourselves approved, rightly dividing the word of truth and learning how to apply these laws to our lives appropriately.

Exodus 34:26 King James Version
26 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of Yahuwah thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

Exodus 23:19 King James Version
19 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

Deuteronomy 14:21-22 King James Version
21 Ye shall not eat of anything 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.
22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.

It is related to the harvest time. The pagan Canaanites, who worshipped the gods of fertility and prosperity, and practiced so many abominations that Yahuwah commanded that they be destroyed, along with the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and the Jebusites (Deuteronomy 20:17), did this during harvest season to appease their gods and had hoped to get a better harvest. Yahuwah didn’t want His people to mix these traditions with HIS harvest festivals.

Here is a comment of a Karaite Jew: “It was a custom of the ancient heathens, when they had gathered in all their fruits, to take a kid and boil it in the milk of its dam; and then, in a magical way, to go about and besprinkle with it all their trees and fields, gardens and orchards; thinking by these means to make them fruitful, that they might bring forth more abundantly in the following year. Wherefore, God forbad his people, at the time of their in-gathering, to use any such superstitious or idolatrous rite.’ –Dr. Cudworth on the Lord’s Supper.