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Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; if you do, the entire harvest will be defiled—both the crop you plant and the fruit of your vineyard. Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together. Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.
Earlier text
Exodus 26:31BSB
Make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.
Exodus 26:31 describes the tabernacle veil (פָּרֹכֶת, parokhet) made from mixed materials—blue, purple, scarlet yarn with fine linen—and adorned with embroidered cherubim. Deuteronomy 22:9-11 prohibits the mixing of seeds, animals, and fabrics (שַׁעַטְנֵז, sha'atnez) in ordinary life. The veil separating the Most Holy Place from the Holy Place employs precisely the material combinations forbidden to common use, signifying that this boundary fabric mediates between realms that ordinary materials cannot bridge. The cherubim woven into the veil recall the guardians at Eden's entrance (Gen 3:24), reinforcing the veil's function as the threshold between God's immediate presence and the created order.