* seven days.
It was necessary for the mother's health that the young one
should suck so long; and prior to this time, the process of
nutrition in a young animal can scarcely be considered as
completely formed. Besides this, it may justly be asserted,
that the flesh of very young animals is comparatively
innutritive. There is something brutish in eating the young
of beast or fowl, before the hair and hoofs are perfect in
the one, and feathers and claws in the other; and before this
period, their flesh is not good for food, consequently they
were not fit for sacrifice, which is termed the bread or food
of God, (ver. 25.)
25 12:2,3 19:23,24 Ex 22:30
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