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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 12, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 15.

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1642.—Selling to Strangers. Deut. 14:21.

In Deut. 14:21 do you see a wrong principle involved where the people were commanded not to eat an animal that dieth of itself, etc., but were permitted to give it to the stranger or sell it unto an alien.

No; for no deception was used. They sold to the stranger what he was accustomed to use regularly. We recall an incident of school-boy days. A neighbor lost a yearling steer. When he was about to take its hide as the only thing of worth, and bury the carcass, an old German, a tenant in a house of the man who lost the steer, objected and insisted on buying it. He was told that it was unfit to eat, that it might poison him, etc., but he insisted on purchasing it, and it was sold to him. I have not been able to see that the man who sold it did a wrong to the old German. Nor did the Israelites if they sold it for what it actually was, as the scripture implies.