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29 (30) You are to do the same with your oxen and your sheep — it is to stay with its mother seven days, and on the eighth day you are to give it to me.

30 (31) “You are to be my specially separated people. Therefore you are not to eat any flesh torn by wild animals in the countryside; rather, throw it out for the dogs.

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29 “Do not hold back offerings(A) from your granaries or your vats.[a]

“You must give me the firstborn of your sons.(B) 30 Do the same with your cattle and your sheep.(C) Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but give them to me on the eighth day.(D)

31 “You are to be my holy people.(E) So do not eat the meat of an animal torn by wild beasts;(F) throw it to the dogs.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 22:29 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.