Deuteronomy 14 - Introduction

SUMMARY OF CHAPTER FOURTEEN

The Israelies are not to adopt superstitious customs in mourning, 1, 2. The different kinds of clean and unclean animals, 3-20. Nothing to be eaten that dieth of itself, 21. Concerning offerings which, from distance cannot be carried to the altar of God, and which may be turned into money, 22-26. The Levite is not to be forsaken, 27. The third year's tithe for the Levite, stranger, widow, &c., 28, 29.

QUESTIONS, LESSON ELEVEN (Deuteronomy 14:1-21)

1.

What reason does God give for not cutting themselves, etc., for the dead?

2.

What qualifications made an animal clean?

3.

What if half the qualification was met?

4.

What made a fish (or other marine life) clean?

5.

Again, what if half the qualification was met?

6.

Why all this forbidding (and in other cases allowing) on the part of God? Was their any moral to it?

7.

Briefly, discuss what the New Testament teaches on this subject (questions 2-6).

8.

Give a possible reason for God forbidding the eating of an animal not slaughtered (a carcass).

9.

Give a possible reason for not boiling a kid in its mother's milk.