Vide Interp. ad Gen. xxxii. 25, 32.SINEW. The Hebrews do not eat the Sinew of the Thigh of Animals, in Memory of the Sinew of Jacob’s Thigh, which the Angel touch’d, and which contracted such a Numbness, that according to some Interpreters, he went lame of it all his Life after. This Abstinence from the Sinew of the Thigh of Animals, is not commanded to the Israelites by any Law; for they must have abstained from it even before the Law, if the Observation that we find in Genesis xxxii. 32. was inserted by Moses. There are some Interpreters that think, this Forbearance of theirs is only Matter of voluntary Devotion. In some Places they abstain’d from the Hind-quarter of Animals, and sold it to others. In other Places they contented themselves with taking away the Sinew, and then they eat the Flesh. See what we have observed concerning this in the Article of Jacob.
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