Mixing & Hybrids
Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
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The purpose of this page is to document Scriptural references about the restrictions on mixing and hybrids and the purpose of the restrictions.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES:
19'Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.' (KJV)
Matthew 13:25 The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares
Don't mingle the species of livestock
When you sow your field, do not use two types of seed
When you wear a garment, don't mingle the materials (ie. linen w/ wool)
Hebrew word > chuk - an ordinance of Torah not fully logical, or understood, yet fully and eternally binding.
Hebrew word > chukkot - "statute"
Hebrew word > chukim - Statutes, or Ordinances (Plural form of "Chuk")
Hebrew word > kil'ayim - "mix or mingle"
Hebrew word > zera - seed, sperm
9'Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.' (KJV)
10'Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.' (KJV)
11'Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.' (KJV)
Matthew 13:25 The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares
25'But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.' (KJV)
Satan came in and planted evil ones among the good.
Some translations use the word 'darnel'.
The Hebrew word is 'zunim' - "degenerate wheat"