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Laws of Defiled Meat (Terephah)
To maintain status as 'holy people' (Anshe-kodesh), Israel was forbidden from eating meat of animals killed by wild predators ('Terephah'). Such meat was to be cast to the dogs, preserving the boundary between civil/sacred consumption and natural scavenging.
Exo 22
Boiling a Kid in its Mother’s Milk
This cryptic prohibition against seething a young goat in its mother's milk is the foundational verse for Jewish 'Kashrut' regarding the separation of dairy and meat, potentially originally aimed at countering pagan fertility rituals.
Exo 23