to boil (Ex 16:23).
then he said to them, "This is what the LORD meant: Tomorrow is a sabbath observance, a holy sabbath to the LORD Bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over put aside to be kept until morning."
This verb, which means to boil, occurs occasionally in AV, especially in the command (Ex 23:18 etc.), 'Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.' The past tense was sod, as Ge 25:29 'Jacob sod pottage'; and the past part. sodden, as La 4:10 'The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children.'
When Jacob had cooked stew, Esau came in from the field and he was famished;
"You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; nor is the fat of My feast to remain overnight until morning.
The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
To boil,' from the Anglo-Saxon seothan. Ex 16:23; etc.
then he said to them, "This is what the LORD meant: Tomorrow is a sabbath observance, a holy sabbath to the LORD Bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over put aside to be kept until morning."
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