Post by CoolJGS☺ on Oct 9, 2017 21:57:29 GMT
There is already information regarding the priest being allowed to wear mixed fabrics and there were already sufficient markers to separate the from other tribes - circumcision, tattoos, etc...
Were there other tribes out there with mixed garments and, if so, why would the priests have them?
These and other prohibitions were designed to forbid the Israelites to engage in fertility cult practices of the Canaanites. The Canaanites believed in sympathetic magic, the idea that symbolic actions can influence the gods and nature…. Mixing animal breeds, seeds, or materials was thought to “marry” them” so as magically to produce “offspring,” that is, agricultural bounty in the future.
EDIT:
It's not about seperating them from other tribes it is about avoiding pagan practices.
The mixing of fabrics being one could be tied to that but it was not in and of itself paganism since true worship included it too.