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The Guarded Law: Prohibitions, Aspect, and Compound Expressions in Leviticus 19:19 LXX

Τὸν νόμον μου φυλάξεσθε τὰ κτήνη σου οὐ κατοχεύσεις ἑτεροζύγῳ καὶ τὸν ἀμπελῶνά σου οὐ κατασπερεῖς διάφορον καὶ ἱμάτιον ἐκ δύο ὑφασμένον κίβδηλον οὐκ ἐπιβαλεῖς σεαυτῷ (Leviticus 19:19 LXX)

You shall keep my law; your cattle you shall not mate with one of a different kind, and your vineyard you shall not sow with mixed seed, and a garment woven from two kinds of material, false, you shall not put upon yourself.

One Law, Three Prohibitions

This verse presents a triad of prohibitions bound together under the imperative to keep God’s law. Each clause carries its own verb of prohibition, and the sequence shifts between future indicative forms with prohibitive force and participial descriptors.… Learn Koine Greek

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