Maimonides
Not to eat the flesh of beasts set apart as sacrifices, that have been rendered unfit to be offered up by deliberately inflicted blemish, as it is said, “Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing” (Deut. 14:3). We learn by tradition that this text refers to sacrificial beasts rendered unfit by the infliction of a blemish.
Deuteronomy 14:3
- KJV
- Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
- ASV
- Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
- WEB
- You shall not eat any abominable thing.
- JPS
- Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
