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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

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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Wool

The fleece of sheep and other animals. That of sheep was used for weaving into cloth, and is generally referred to as “wool.” In the figurative language of Isaiah 1:18¹⁸Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (Isaiah 1:18) undyed wool represents the state resulting from the removal of sin by Jehovah from His people; the sin being compared to that which had been dyed crimson. The law forbade the wearing of a garment made of linen and wool: it was an unnatural mixture, figurative of the working of the Spirit and the flesh in a Christian (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)).