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Wool

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: W By: James P. Boyd

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A highly prized material for clothing among Hebrews

(Lev. 13:47⁴⁷The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment; (Leviticus 13:47); Job 31:20²⁰If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; (Job 31:20); Prov. 31:13¹³She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. (Proverbs 31:13); Ezek. 27:18; 34:3¹⁸Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool. (Ezekiel 27:18)
³Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock. (Ezekiel 34:3)). Mixed woolen and linen fabrics forbidden (Lev. 19:19¹⁹Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee. (Leviticus 19:19); Deut. 22:11¹¹Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together. (Deuteronomy 22:11)).

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