* thy cattle gender.
These practices might have been considered as altering the
original constitution of God in creation; and this is the
view which the Jews, and also Josephus and Philo, take of the
subject. There were, probably, also both moral and political
reasons for these prohibitions. With respect to heterogenous
mixtures among cattle, it was probably forbidden, to prevent
excitements to the abominations condemned in the preceding
chapter. As to seeds, in many cases, it would be highly
improper to sow different kinds in the same plot of ground.
If oats and wheat, for instance, were sown together, the
latter would be injured, and the former ruined. This
prohibition may therefore be regarded as a prudential
agricultural maxim. As to different kinds of garments, the
prohibition might be intended against pride and vanity in
clothing.
Ge 36:24 2Sa 13:29 18:9 1Ki 1:33 Ezr 2:66
* mingled.
De 22:9-11 Mt 9:16,17 Ro 11:6 2Co 6:14-17 Ga 3:9-11
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