Leviticus 22:27 (22:26)

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seven days.It was necessary for the mother's health that the young one should suck so long; and prior to this time, the process of nutrition in a young animal can scarcely be considered as completely formed. Besides this, it may justly be asserted, that the flesh of very young animals is comparatively innutritive. There is something brutish in eating the young of beast or fowl, before the hair and hoofs are perfect in the one, and feathers and claws in the other; and before this period, their flesh is not good for food, consequently they were not fit for sacrifice, which is termed the bread or food of God, (ver. 25.)
Leviticus 22:25; Leviticus 12:2; Leviticus 12:3; Leviticus 19:23; Leviticus 19:24; Exodus 22:30