Exodus 34:26

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.”

Exodus 34:26 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 34:26

The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring,
&c.] This, and another law in this verse, concerning not seething a kid in his mother's milk, are repeated from ( Exodus 23:19 ) . (See Gill on Exodus 23:19).

Exodus 34:26 In-Context

24 For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD your God.

25 Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to Me along with anything leavened, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.

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.”

27 The LORD also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

28 So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.