DAY 72 Read Deuteronomy 14 through 16.
Today's reading covers a number of the rules and regulations governing the Hebrew economy. Among other things it lists again the clean and unclean meats.
Memory gem: "Thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself" (Deuteronomy 14:2).
Thought for today:
The health laws written down by Moses forbade the use of unclean animal foods and particularly the flesh of swine (see Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14). Dr. David Macht, a noted authority on drug and animal poisons, squeezed out the juices of more than seventy different species of fish and injected them into mice, and also used them in tests on seedling plants. Tissue extracts from unclean fish killed some of the mice and retarded the growth of the seedlings. Extracts from the edible fish were seen to have no injurious effects on either mice or plants.
It was not until 1847 that Joseph Leidy discovered in pork the parasitic worm Trichinella spiralis. If this is why the use of swine's flesh as food was forbidden by God in the law of Moses, we are not told; but certainly modern science has at least one good reason to be wary of it. Who wants to be infected by trichina worms? But the fact is that millions are and wonder what is wrong with them. Unless pork products are thoroughly cooked, there is always a dangerous possibility of trichina infection.
If any reader wishes to encourage himself to avoid the danger of eating such infected meat, I suggest that he write to the United States Department of Agriculture and request the bulletin on trichinosis.
One of the greatest prophets of the Bible wrote about certain ones who continually provoked the Lord to His face. You can read it for yourself in Isaiah 65, verses 3 and 4.
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Difficult or obscure words:
Deuteronomy 14:2. "Peculiar people"--better: private or treasured, the real meaning of "peculiar."
Today's reading covers a number of the rules and regulations governing the Hebrew economy. Among other things it lists again the clean and unclean meats.
Memory gem: "Thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself" (Deuteronomy 14:2).
Thought for today:
The health laws written down by Moses forbade the use of unclean animal foods and particularly the flesh of swine (see Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14). Dr. David Macht, a noted authority on drug and animal poisons, squeezed out the juices of more than seventy different species of fish and injected them into mice, and also used them in tests on seedling plants. Tissue extracts from unclean fish killed some of the mice and retarded the growth of the seedlings. Extracts from the edible fish were seen to have no injurious effects on either mice or plants.
It was not until 1847 that Joseph Leidy discovered in pork the parasitic worm Trichinella spiralis. If this is why the use of swine's flesh as food was forbidden by God in the law of Moses, we are not told; but certainly modern science has at least one good reason to be wary of it. Who wants to be infected by trichina worms? But the fact is that millions are and wonder what is wrong with them. Unless pork products are thoroughly cooked, there is always a dangerous possibility of trichina infection.
If any reader wishes to encourage himself to avoid the danger of eating such infected meat, I suggest that he write to the United States Department of Agriculture and request the bulletin on trichinosis.
One of the greatest prophets of the Bible wrote about certain ones who continually provoked the Lord to His face. You can read it for yourself in Isaiah 65, verses 3 and 4.
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Difficult or obscure words:
Deuteronomy 14:2. "Peculiar people"--better: private or treasured, the real meaning of "peculiar."
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