Leviticus 19:19

Hebrew Bible

18 You must not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you must love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord. 19 You must keep my statutes. You must not allow two different kinds of your animals to breed together, you must not sow your field with two different kinds of seed, and you must not wear a garment made of two different kinds of material. 20 “‘When a man goes to bed with a woman for intercourse, although she is a slave woman designated for another man and she has not yet been ransomed, or freedom has not been granted to her, there will be an obligation to pay compensation. They must not be put to death, because she was not free.

Deuteronomy 22:9

Hebrew Bible

8 If you build a new house, you must construct a guardrail around your roof to avoid being culpable in the event someone should fall from it. 9 You must not plant your vineyard with two kinds of seed; otherwise the entire yield, both of the seed you plant and the produce of the vineyard, will be defiled. 10 You must not plow with an ox and a donkey harnessed together.

 Notes and References

"... The appearance of rare terms can help in detecting allusion. The rare term 'mixture' or 'woven together' only appears in Leviticus 19:19 and Deuteronomy 22:11, helping confirm a likely allusion ... Without the shared term 'woven together' the substantial differences in these contexts would raise questions about an intentional relationship in spite of several verbal and thematic similarities. ..."

Schnittjer, Gary Edward Old Testament Use of Old Testament: A Book-by-Book Guide (p. xxiv) Zondervan Academic, 2021

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