Leviticus 19:19

19:19 You must keep my statutes. 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. 3 

Leviticus 26:16

26:16 I for my part 4  will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. 5  You will sow your seed in vain because 6  your enemies will eat it. 7 

1 tn Heb “Your animals, you shall not cross-breed two different kinds.”

2 tn Heb “you shall not cause to go up on you.”

3 sn Cf. Deut 22:11 where the Hebrew term translated “two different kinds” (כִּלְאַיִם, kil’ayim) refers to a mixture of linen and wool woven together in a garment.

4 tn Or “I also” (see HALOT 76 s.v. אַף 6.b).

5 tn Heb “soul.” These expressions may refer either to the physical effects of consumption and fever as the rendering in the text suggests (e.g., J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 452, 454, “diminishing eyesight and loss of appetite”), or perhaps the more psychological effects, “which exhausts the eyes” because of anxious hope “and causes depression” (Heb “causes soul [נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh] to pine away”), e.g., B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 185.

6 tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have causal force here.

7 tn That is, “your enemies will eat” the produce that grows from the sown seed.