“Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth,” Let Israel now say— “Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth; Yet they have not prevailed against me. The plowers plowed on my back; They made their furrows long.”

The Lord (Yahuwah) is righteous; He has cut in pieces the cords of the wicked. Let all those who hate Zion Be put to shame and turned back.

Let them be as the grass on the housetops, Which withers before it grows up, With which the reaper does not fill his hand, Nor he who binds sheaves, his arms. Neither let those who pass by them say, “The blessing of the Lord be upon you; We bless you in the name of the Lord!”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭129‬:‭1‬-‭8‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of YHWH your God.
You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
Exodus 23:19

Three times in Torah, seething a kid in its mother’s milk is forbidden in connection with a firstfruits offering. One reason might be in Isaiah 66:3, which equates an unworthy offering with pagan modes of sacrifice, such as pig’s blood and dogs. In other words, even in the least forms of offerings, don’t compromise with pagan religious practices, and don’t mix your offering with resentment or unfaithfulness.

A goat is a clean animal and a valid option for sacrifice. There’s nothing unclean about milk, nor explicitly forbidden about mixing meat and milk. The connection to firstfruits offering, the literary structure of the passage, and the thematic connection to Isaiah 66 all point to this being a reference to a pagan religious practice, probably considered one of the “least” and least offensive of all their sacrifices.

You shall keep the Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor.
Exodus 23:16 ESV

Although all three feasts of ascent are harvest festivals, they are referenced slightly differently. Shavuot is more explicitly called the “Feast of Harvest”, while Sukkot is called the “Feast of Ingathering”. Passover is the “Feast of Unleavened Bread”, but it includes the early firstfruits offering from the spring barley harvest.

Three times per year all Israelite men are to go to the Temple for Hag HaMatzah, Shavuot, and Sukkot. (Exo 23:14-17) Unfortunately, Israelite men are scattered around the world and there's no Temple to go to.

The feasts of ascent serve multiple purposes: worship, census, community, and much more. Could they also have served to boost national immunity to disease?

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