Leviticus 19

April 9, Year 1

[19] “… nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.

• Again, what looks strange and arbitrary is a actually a symbol of purity.

• From the beginning, God creates and separates—light from dark, heaven from sea, land from water.

• So should we.

• Consider what an enormous amount of human activity is actually just some form of separating—distinguishing, discerning, cleaning, ….

• We will see more detail later in the book, with the elaborations on these commands.

• It may seem excessive. But it’s worth noting that God later commands tassels on the fringe garments (Deuteronomy 22:12).

• The fabric of that clothing was linen, but by tradition, these tassels were bound with strings of wool.

• Again: a symbol: Purity is necessarily looser on the margins.