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What to Know About the Food Laws

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  Image source: unsplash.com A fter the Israelites successfully escaped their slavery in Egypt and were able to make it to Mount Sinai, God established several different laws that He wanted them to follow. Ten of these laws you are probably very familiar with: I am talking about the Ten Commandments. God told Moses to climb up to the top of Mount Sinai for forty days to receive these ten important rules and engrave them into two stone tablets, so he could bring the tablets back down to the Israelites, who were not allowed to go up themselves as the area was considered holy at that time. As you probably know already, these commandments warn us about sins such as idolatry, adultery, gossip, and more obvious ones like theft and murder. However, the Ten Commandments were not the only laws that God had prepared for His people. There was another set of rules that we are meant to follow which was first revealed in the third book of the Torah (the Torah is the name for the first five book...