Exodus 34:25-26

"Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning. The first of the first-fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring unto the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk."

All of these regulations are merely repetitions of those already given; and it is inconceivable that scholars would affirm, apparently seriously, that "It is better to view them as distinct decalogues."[22] The abject and pitiful poverty of liberal criticism of the Bible reaches a new low in allegations such as this. See under Exodus 23:19 for comment on boiling a little goat in its mother's milk, and under Exodus 23:14 for notes on the three annual feasts. Here we might add that Robert P. Gordon also identified "boiling a kid in its mother's milk" as a "pagan rite with fertility significance, as proved by Ugaritic texts from Ras Shamra tablets."[23]

"Neither shall the sacrifice (of the Passover) be left until morning ..." Esses was correct in the observation that here is the reason why, "God ordained that Christ's body (our Passover) would be taken down from the cross before sundown."[24] For discussion of "What Day (of the week) Did He Suffer?" see my comments on Mark 15:42.