The Sayings of God

Do Not Mix Meat with Milk

Do not boil a kid in its mother's milk. Exodus 34:26

Every Firstling of a Womb is Mine

You are to safeguard the festival of unleavened bread. You are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, as I have commanded you, in the appointed month of Spring, because in the month of Spring, you left Egypt. Every firstling of a womb is mine - hence, all cattle which is a male firstling of an ox or sheep. But you are to redeem a firstling donkey with a sheep, and if you do not redeem it, you are to break its neck. Redeem every firstborn of your sons, and do not appear before me empty-handed. You may work for six days, but you are to rest on the seventh day. Make a Sabbath in plough-time and in harvest, and make the festival of weeks, for yourself, of the first-fruit of the wheat harvest - and the festival of ingathering at its time of the year. Three times a year, all your males will appear before the Lord, the Eternal, God of Israel, for I will dispossess nations from before you and widen your borders. Yet, no man will desire your land while you ascend to appear before the Eternal three times a year. Do not slaughter the blood of my sacrifice with leaven. And do not leave the Passover festival sacrifice until morning. Bring the best of the first-fruits of your land to the house of the Eternal your God.
- Exodus 34:18-26

He is a Jealous God

Now, I am making a contract. I will do wonders before your people which have not been created in all the earth or in all of the nations. All the people among whom you are will see the work of the Eternal, because what I will do with you, it is fearful. Safeguard for yourself that which I command you today. Here, I am driving out from before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite. Be on guard yourself or you may make a treaty with the inhabitant of the land to which you come. Perhaps, he will be a trap in your midst. Therefore, you are to demolish their alters, break their statues and cut their groves, because you may not bow to another god, because the Eternal - his name is jealous. He is a jealous God. Perhaps, you would make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land. They solicit their gods and sacrifice to their gods. He would call on you. You would eat from his sacrifice. You would take from his daughters for your sons. His daughters solicit their gods. Your sons would solicit their gods. Do not make molten gods for yourself! - Exodus 34:10-17

Compassionate, Gracious, Slow to Anger

The Eternal is the Eternal, God, compassionate, gracious, slow to anger, abundant in mercy and truth, showing mercy to the thousandth generation, bearing iniquity, transgression and sin, and not destroying the innocent, punishing the iniquity of fathers on their children and on their children's children, until the third and the fourth generations. - Exodus 34:6-7