Leviticus 18:23

18:23

animal ............... animal <0929> [any beast.]

perversion <08397> [confusion.]

Leviticus 19:19

19:19

animals ... breed <07250 0929> [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.

two different kinds .............. two different kinds ... seed ........... two different kinds <03610> [mingled.]

Leviticus 20:16

20:16

woman ............... woman <0802> [And if a woman.]

We are assured by Herodotus (in Euterp.) that the abominations here referred to existed among the Egyptians, and even formed part of their superstitious religious system, and we have reason to believe that they were not uncommon among the Canaanites. (See ch. 18:24, 25). Need we wonder then, that God should have made laws of this nature, and appointed the punishment of death for these crimes? This one observation will account for many of those strange prohibitions which we find in the Mosaic law.

animal ............... animal <0929> [and the beast.]