Deuteronomy 14:21 meaning and explanation
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 a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Deuteronomy 14:21, Berean Standard Bible
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Moses is speaking to Israel on the plains of Moab, closing the section on clean and unclean animals. An animal that died on its own was not to be eaten by Israelites, though it could be given or sold to a foreigner living among them, who was not bound by the same covenant.
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