Yahweh has provided certain animals for food, and others which were never intended to be eaten. The basic guidelines, found in Leviticus 11, are for our own health and well being, and it benefits us to observe the healthy standard which Yahweh, in His infinite love and wisdom has given us. Yahweh also forbids the consuming of blood (Deut. 12:16,23) and the cooking of a kid in its mother's milk (Exodus 23:19, 34:26, Deuteronomy 14:21) as rituals of pagans. Likewise, an animal must not be eaten which dies of itself (Lev 22:8) both to prevent disease, and because the blood remains in the meat.
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