Halakhah do Wyjścia 34:15

In order to explain this matter, the rationale underlying the severity of the prohibition concerning idolatry must be brought into focus. Rambam, Hilkhot Sheḥitah 4:11, rules that an animal slaughtered in the biblically prescribed manner by a gentile (akum) is forbidden as carrion. In support of that talmudic ruling, Rambam cites the verse "'and he shall call you and you will eat of his slaughter' (Exodus 34:15). Since [the Torah] admonishes lest you eat of his slaughter you are to infer that his slaughter is forbidden." The verse cited by Rambam occurs in the context of an admonition concerning idolatry. In light of Rambam's citation of a passage describing partaking of the meat of an idolatrous sacrifice, Shakh, Yoreh De'ah 2:2, understands Rambam's disqualification of a gentile as limited to a gentile who actually engages in idolatrous practices. That analysis of Rambam's position is substantiated by Rambam's immediately following ruling, Hilkhot Sheḥitah 4:12, in which he declares, "And [the Sages] erected a great fence in this matter [in declaring] that even the slaughter of a gentile who does not serve idols is carrion." Rambam thus indicates that the biblical disqualification is limited to idolatrous gentiles but is extended to all gentiles by virtue of rabbinic decree.