Do you follow the Old Testament food laws?

Broth

MEAT

A cooking preparation rather than a specific animal — its cleanness follows the meat used to make it

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Mentioned in 3 verses (KJV)

Meat

Description

Broth wasn’t a food in its own right but a byproduct of cooking meat, and its cleanness simply followed whatever animal it came from. Gideon carried a pot of it as part of an offering to a visitor who turned out to be the angel of the Lord.

Key verses

  • “And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.”

    Judges 6:19

  • “Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;”

    Isaiah 65:4

All 3 referencesshow
  • Isaiah 65:4
  • Judges 6:19
  • Judges 6:20

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