Comments on: What’s So Wrong with Mixing Wool & Linen?

By: Lois Tverberg

Lois Tverberg — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 15:15:24 +0000

One more time – the law about mixing wool and linen is not about teaching that all mixing is wrong. It’s not about the idea that wool is sinful. Wool was the fabric used for the high priest’s outer vestment.

Certain animals were unclean to eat, but were regularly used for other purposes, like donkeys and camels. The reason it was wrong to yoke a donkey and ox together was because it was cruel, not just because it was a mixture.

A lot of ideas about the levitical laws are preacher’s conjectures that aren’t based on knowledge of the practices in the Ancient Near East or archaeology. My suggestion is to read Jacob Milgrom’s work on Leviticus and Numbers.

By: Lois Tverberg

Lois Tverberg — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 14:36:23 +0000

In reply to John Michael. No, that's not a valid analogy. Once again, the mixture of wool and linen was specifically used in priestly garments and tassels. Adultery is wrong because it violates a sacred, covenantal relationship.

By: John Michael

John Michael — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 20:02:06 +0000

Could there be an idiom there with regard to the mixing of things that would then be a sin, ie adultery? The mixing of a married man and a woman through intercourse?.

By: Sandra King

Sandra King — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 15:43:00 +0000

Correction: A donkey must be redeemed by a Lamb!

By: Sandra King

Sandra King — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 15:42:07 +0000

An ox and a donkey are not to be yoked because an ox is considered a clean animal while a donkey is an unclean animal. They would be unequally yoked as a believer and unbeliever would be unequally yoked in the NT. A donkey must be redeemed by a land or, if not, be put to death. Ex. 34:20

Wool comes from sheep and linen from flax. Linen represents righteousness. Wool gets dirty and smelly until it is purified (cleansed).

God doesn’t like mixed seed. A mule cannot reproduce. Only man can create a mule by mixing seed. God has no part in it!

By: Rena

Rena — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 21:33:15 +0000

This was so interesting. I have wondered about that verse. Thank you.

By: ginette

ginette — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 23:27:45 +0000

actually i think it refers to the mixing of wool and linen during the weaving process not that you can’t wear an item of clothing made from linen + another item of clothing made from wool, anyway hardly applicable in this day and age as much of our clothing is made from synthetic fabrics, and as basically all they knew were clothes made from wool linen and possibly cotton and of course the luxury of silk, i think we will be forgiven if we were to ask God how deuteronomy would fit in our world today.
i can just see how stoning would go down in modern society, and how many women would accept the ruling they were worth less than a tenth of the value of a man. JESUS broke with all traditions as it was to a woman he first showed his RESURRECTED SELF on easter day (sunday) and He never denigrated women but always respected them

By: Lois Tverberg

Lois Tverberg — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 19:58:25 +0000

In reply to brent emery. Brent, that's true. The "tzitzit" are a kind of string-around-your-finger to remind a person that as part of God's priesthood, they are on display to the rest of the world. They can't blend in.

By: Clinton Nauert

Clinton Nauert — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:06:06 +0000

We are followers of the Master and obedient to the King/God — Yeshua gave us his example of our place within the priesthood (an example from the living Word).
John 5:30 “I can of mine own self do nothing; as I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath “sent” me.” John 13:16 “Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is “sent” greater than he that “sent” him.”
If Yeshua could not overrule the Commandments then neither can we overrule anything biblical — but only obey.

By: brent emery

brent emery — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 16:13:59 +0000

There is a very interesting connection with the tzitzit of Numbers 15 and the “spy narrative” that precedes it in Numbers 13 and 14. In Numbers 13:2 the Hebrew word for “spy” is Tur. The same Hebrew word is used again in Numbers 13:25 and 14:34. In Numbers 14:33 Israel is told they would wander the wilderness because of faithlessness/harloty which is the Hebrew word “zenut”. In Numbers 15:39 the text reads, “And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, to do them, not to follow (Hebrew-Tur) after your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore (Hebrew-zanah). The reason we have the tzitzit is so that we will not forget the commandments which the generation coming out of Egypt did. The command to wear tzitzit is tied by key words to the previous narrative where the children of Israel failed to be obedient. G-d gave them/us the tzitzit to remind us of our need to be obedient.

By: Nathan Joshua

Nathan Joshua — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 15:48:55 +0000

In reply to Lisa Guinther. Thanks and God bless you Lisa for your insightful response.

By: Lois Tverberg

Lois Tverberg — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 22:46:10 +0000

In reply to Kat. Fun! You'll have to introduce us when I come out to visit. :-)