Onkelos translates this commandment: ‏לא תיכול בשר בחלב‎ “Thou shalt not eat meat in milk,” in accordance with the Oral Law. The threefold repetition of the commandment forbidding the seething of a kid in its mother’s milk is explained traditionally to indicate a threefold prohibition: that of boiling meat and milk together, that of eating such mixture, and that of deriving any benefit whatever from it (‏ואיסור‎, ‏איסור אכילה‎, ‏איסור בישול הנאה‎). In obedience to the principle, “Make a fence round the Law,” we abstain from milk or butter for some time after having partaken of meat. 7. On Page 461—4. The honey of bees is an apparent exception from the rule that the products of the unclean animals are forbidden. The honey mentioned in the Bible is mostly the juice of fruit, especially of dates; but the honey of bees is also mentioned (Judges xiv. 8). It is assumed that honey does not contain any part of the bee itself, but is merely the juice of the flowers sucked and again discharged by the bees. (See Babyl. Talm., Bechoroth 7b; Maim., Mishneh-torah, Hil. maachaloth asuroth iii. 3.) Note 8. In addition to the things enumerated in this chapter as forbidden, there is the prohibition of “wine of libation” (‏יין נסך‎). Everything used in the worship of idols was condemned, and could not serve as food, drink, or any purpose; it was ‏אסור בהנאה‎. Wine was frequently used by heathens in libations to their idols. The wine of a heathen was therefore always suspected of having been employed in idolatrous libations, and was consequently forbidden as ‏יין נסך‎. Since, however, such libations have ceased this prohibition has also lapsed. It has, however, not lapsed in its entirety. It is only the ‏אסור הנאה‎ that is no longer in force. The prohibition of using wine prepared by non-Jews (‏סתם יין‎) as a beverage still continues. This and similar prohibitions were intended as a barrier against the increase of mixed marriages among the Jews. (Comp. Babyl. Talm., Shabbath 17b.) VII. JEWISH LIFE.