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Leviticus 19

Lev. 19:19 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Ye shall keep
shamar (Hebrew #8104)
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
KJV usage: beward, be circumspect, take heed (to self), keep(-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch(-man).
Pronounce: shaw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
my statutes
chuqqah (Hebrew #2708)
feminine of 2706, and meaning substantially the same
KJV usage: appointed, custom, manner, ordinance, site, statute.
Pronounce: khook-kaw'
. Thouo shalt not let thy cattle
bhemah (Hebrew #929)
properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective)
KJV usage: beast, cattle.
Pronounce: be-hay-maw'
Origin: from an unused root (probably meaning to be mute)
gender
raba` (Hebrew #7250)
to squat or lie out flat, i.e. (specifically) in copulation
KJV usage: let gender, lie down.
Pronounce: raw-bah'
Origin: a primitive root
with a diverse kind
kil'ayim (Hebrew #3610)
two heterogeneities
KJV usage: divers seeds (-e kinds), mingled (seed).
Pronounce: kil-ah'-yim
Origin: dual of 3608 in the original sense of separation
: thou shalt not sow
zara` (Hebrew #2232)
to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify
KJV usage: bear, conceive seed, set with sow(-er), yield.
Pronounce: zaw-rah'
Origin: a primitive root
thy field
sadeh (Hebrew #7704)
from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field (as flat)
KJV usage: country, field, ground, land, soil, X wild.
Pronounce: saw-deh'
Origin: or saday {saw-dah'-ee}
with mingled seed
kil'ayim (Hebrew #3610)
two heterogeneities
KJV usage: divers seeds (-e kinds), mingled (seed).
Pronounce: kil-ah'-yim
Origin: dual of 3608 in the original sense of separation
: neither shall a garment
beged (Hebrew #899)
a covering, i.e. clothing; also treachery or pillage
KJV usage: apparel, cloth(-es, ing), garment, lap, rag, raiment, robe, X very (treacherously), vesture, wardrobe.
Pronounce: behg'-ed
Origin: from 898
mingled
kil'ayim (Hebrew #3610)
two heterogeneities
KJV usage: divers seeds (-e kinds), mingled (seed).
Pronounce: kil-ah'-yim
Origin: dual of 3608 in the original sense of separation
of linen and woollen
sha`atnez (Hebrew #8162)
linsey- woolsey, i.e. cloth of linen and wool carded and spun together
KJV usage: garment of divers sorts, linen and wollen.
Pronounce: shah-at-naze'
Origin: probably of foreign derivation
come
`alah (Hebrew #5927)
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative (as follow)
KJV usage: arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, + shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, X mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, + perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.
Pronounce: aw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
upon thee.
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Deut. 22:9‑11• 9{i}Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with seed of two sorts, lest the whole of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the produce of thy vineyard, be forfeited.{/i}
 10{i}Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.{/i}
 11{i}Thou shalt not wear a garment of mixed material, woven of wool and linen together.{/i} (Deut. 22:9‑11)

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Cattle,
Garments,
Linen,
Seed,
Sower; Sowing,
Wool

Cross References

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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.
Gen. 36:24• 24And these are the sons of Zibeon: both Ajah and Anah. This is the Anah that found the warm springs in the wilderness as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father. (Gen. 36:24)
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2 Sam. 13:29• 29{i}And the servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and they rode each upon his mule and fled.{/i} (2 Sam. 13:29)
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2 Sam. 18:9• 9{i}And Absalom found himself in the presence of David's servants. And Absalom was riding upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of the great terebinth, and his head caught in the terebinth, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.{/i} (2 Sam. 18:9)
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1 Kings 1:33• 33{i}And the king said to them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon;{/i} (1 Kings 1:33)
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Ezra 2:66• 66{i}Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six; their mules two hundred and forty-five;{/i} (Ezra 2:66)
mingled.
Deut. 22:9‑11• 9{i}Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with seed of two sorts, lest the whole of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the produce of thy vineyard, be forfeited.{/i}
 10{i}Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.{/i}
 11{i}Thou shalt not wear a garment of mixed material, woven of wool and linen together.{/i} (Deut. 22:9‑11)
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Matt. 9:16‑17• 16{i}But no one puts a patch of new cloth on an old garment, for its filling up takes from the garment and a worse rent takes place.{/i}
 17{i}Nor do men put new wine into old skins, otherwise the skins burst and the wine is poured out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into new skins, and both are preserved together.{/i} (Matt. 9:16‑17)
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Rom. 11:6• 6and if by grace, no longer by works, since [otherwise] grace becometh no longer grace. (Rom. 11:6)
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2 Cor. 6:14‑17• 14Be not diversely yoked with unbelievers: for what partnership [is there] for righteousness and lawlessness? or what fellowship [hath] light with darkness?
 15and what consent of Christ with Beliar? or what part for a believer with an unbeliever?
 16and what agreement for God's temple with idols? For ye are [the] living God's temple, even as God said, I will dwell and walk among them, and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
 17Wherefore come out from the midst of them and be separated, saith [the] Lord, and touch no unclean thing; and I will receive you (2 Cor. 6:14‑17)
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Gal. 3:9‑11• 9So that they that are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.
 10For as many as are of works of law are under curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doth not continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them;”
 11but that in virtue of law none is justified with God [is] evident, for “the just by faith shall (Gal. 3:9‑11)

J. N. Darby Translation

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My statutes shall ye observe. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with another sort; thou shalt not sow thy field with seed of two sorts; and a garment woven of two materials shall not come upon thee.

W. Kelly Translation

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Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind; thou shalt not sow thy field with two kinds of seed; nor shall there come upon thee a garment of two kinds of stuff mingled together.