The dietary laws of the Jews were known well before Sinai, as were the
Ten Commandments. All of these discrepancies can be ironed out with a
certain SDA book called, Bible Readings for the Home.
The witness of Abraham was that:
Genesis 26:5 ... Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my
commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
There was a reason why Joseph would not partake of Potiphar's wife
after his brothers sold him into slavery. Listen to his words in
reply to Potiphar:
Genesis 39:9 There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath
he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife:
how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
Here Joseph speaks of SIN, which is clearly defined as the
transgression of the Law:
1 John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for
sin is the transgression of the law.
Where back then did Joseph know that it was wrong to flirt with
someone else's wife? To lie? To steal?
Now look at the health laws. Just because health laws were scarcely
mentioned in the holy record doesn't mean they were not in existence
before.
Remember the flood of Noah? Remember that the Lord commanded that
Noah take all the kinds of animals two-and-two? Remember that there
were other animals the Lord commanded must be taken in by sevens?
Let's look at the wording:
Genesis 7:7:1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy
house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this
generation.
2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male
and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and
his female.
Notice that there were clean animals and ones that were not before the
flood.
By the time of the Jews, a mixed multitude came in among them. It was
likely through living among the Egyptians that their customs were
being forgotten. The Lord reiterated the Ten Commandments and also
the health principles that were already known.
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