Scant few Christians know the ten commandments that god told Moses to write down on Mt. Sinai.   Well, not on Mt. Sinai, but on some paper or stone tablets.  Anyway these are the real thing and we aught take note.  I am fond of commandment ten and carefully observe it in my culinary activities.  “Thou shalt not seethe (boil) a kid in its mother's milk,” is the last of the big ten in Exodus 23.  It is ok to boil any of your children but you must do them in chicken stock.   They are best before puberty, that is the koscher way before they get snarly.   It is an odd commandment to be certain but food was scarce in Moses’ day but children in surplus.

 Oh,  oh,  sorry.  I was just informed that god meant kids to be baby goats of all things.   Ok,  ok, but why the fuss?  Yes, it might hurt the feelings of the mother goat if she knew about the cooking but wouldn't it be rare for the momma goat to be in the kitchen unless perhaps she were next on the menu?  Still, if god wants it this way, and he does, we better take care to do what he says or wait until he is out of the office or on a journey.  Now that I know better I will be on guard in restaurants to  ask the waitress how exactly my baby goat was seethed.   And you too, should observe this commandment in your food choice.

The commandments carry heavy penalties for infractions.  Likely this one has a stiff fine or it could be anything from not being able to use the family car for a week to being stoned to death several times.    God is touchy about the kids.