Verse Lens · Context pointer
Leviticus 22:28 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 28. 28And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day.
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Role in This Section
This verse prohibits killing a mother animal and its young on the same day.
Read It With
- Leviticus 22:26-33
Place Leviticus 22:28 inside 22:26-33. This verse prohibits killing a mother animal and its young on the same day. Its surrounding procedure or case makes the larger point: An animal remains with its mother seven days, parent and young are not killed the same day, thanksgiving food is eaten promptly, and Israel must not profane the holy name.
Why It Needs Context
This verse prohibits killing a mother animal and its young on the same day. Its force depends on Leviticus 22:26-33, where the complete ritual, legal, narrative, or calendar movement supplies the teachable claim.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Leviticus 22:26-33 — Newborn timing, parent-young restraint, thanksgiving, and holy nameSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Leviticus 22:26-33, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, ritual and legal vocabulary, names, clause relationships, KJV language controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 22:26-33
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