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On Preserving Distinctiveness

19 “Observe my statutes.

“You are not to let your cattle breed with a different species.[a]

“You are not to sow your fields with two different kinds of seeds.[b]

“You are not to wear clothing made from two different kinds of material.

20 “When a person has sexual relations[c] with a woman servant who is engaged to another man, but she has not been completely redeemed nor has her freedom been granted to her, there is to be an inquiry, but they won’t be put to death, since she has not been freed. 21 The perpetrator[d] is to bring his guilt offering to the Lord at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting—that is, a ram as a guilt offering.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 19:19 Lit. breed within two kinds
  2. Leviticus 19:19 The Heb. lacks of seeds
  3. Leviticus 19:20 Lit. a lying of seed
  4. Leviticus 19:21 Lit. He