Ex: Charity, no killing or stealing, Chukim: Mitzvot that we don’t understand, we do them only because Hashem [G-d] told us to. "'Keep my decrees. You must not allow two different kinds of your animals to breed, 1 you must not sow your field with two different kinds of seed, and you must not wear 2 a garment made of two different kinds of fabric. 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Literally, “to work into the blue and into the purple and into the scarlet and into the linen.” I think that Exodus, as you pointed out, is so consistent in treating each of these items as distinct from each other that we should consider the colors as referring to colored yarns. The preposition בְּת֤וֹךְ is placed before each of the items, which treats each item as independent from the others. My rules have absolutely nothing to do with me being a purist or wanting to distinguish myself from the houses around me. Leviticus 19:19 in all English translations. Only one bug is kosher (the Bible lists four, but we can only reliably translate one): the migratory locust. KJ21 ... You shall not sow your field with mixed seed, nor shall your garment be mixed from two types of fabric. My college Ancient Hebrew professor (who is also a rabbi) talked a lot about how the Jews had (have) many rules against mixing or crossing boundaries. 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