Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
God commanded the land to rest every seventh year to show Israel both His abundance and their dependence on Him alone. This was no mercy to the soil but a test of their obedience in the very matter that touches their purse, whether they would trust His Providence as surely as the sixth day's manna served for two days' meat.
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Commenting on Exodus 23:10-19
The law forbids boiling a kid in its mother's milk, which the Jews rightly understand as a prohibition against eating flesh and milk together. This teaches against luxury and excess in appetite; even lawful food becomes unlawful when mixed contrary to God's order.
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All thy males - Old men, sick men, male idiots, and male children under thirteen years of age, excepted; for so the Jewish doctors understand this command.