The Definition of the word Kid

Kid

The young of the goat. It was much used for food (Gen. 27:9; 38:17; Judg. 6:19; 14:6). The Mosaic law forbade to dress a kid "in the milk of its dam, a law which is thrice repeated (Ex." 23:19; 34:26; Deut. 14:21). Among the various reasons assigned "for this law, that appears to be the most satisfactory which" "regards it as "a protest against cruelty and outraging the order" "of nature." A kid cooked in its mother's milk is "a gross," "unwholesome dish, and calculated to kindle animal and ferocious" "passions, and on this account Moses may have forbidden it." "Besides, it is even yet associated with immoderate feasting; and" "originally, I suspect," says Dr. Thomson (Land and the Book)," was connected with idolatrous sacrifices.