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Many
have wondered why God gave the command "Thou
shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed."
Notice the reason for this command in Deuteronomy
22:9,
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lest the :fruit o:r thy seed which thou hast s own,
and the fruit of thy vineyard, BE DEFILED.
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God gave this
law for our protection! He does not want us to defi le or
mix
the
produce that we grow, nor the seed that we save for
growing future crops.
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Just to make sure the point is clear, let us
state a few specific examples . You should not plant cucum–
bers near watermelons because they will cross and produce
a perversion. Likewise, the various members of the musk–
melon and cantaloupe family will mix with pumpkins and
certain types of squash. They should not be planted near
one another. But there is nothing wrong with planting peas
or beans among your cornJ or planting two pasture grasses
together.
In
neither of these cases would one crop "defi l e
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or mix with the other in any way.
In
the beginning God caused each plant and animal
to reproduce after its own kind (Gen. 1:11,21,24) . God
twice commands us to:roiTOw that
ex~ple
instead of mingling
our crops (Lev. 19:19; Deut. 22:9). We should plant those
seeds that will reproduce
afte~
their own kind.
Hybrids that produce confusion and an inferior
~uality
after the first year should NOT be used.
od is not the author of confusion • ..
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(I Cor.
14:33).
Many scriptures show us that God wants His people to produce
and own quality products.
We should use good quality seed tha t will produce
a consistently good quality yeir after yeal. Good seed
planted in land that is proper
y
worked wi 1 produce
strong, healthy plants that bear profitable crops.
Many of our seeds have come down from crosses,
but have had the inferiori t ies selectively bred out, so
that we would not know whether a particular strain of pro–
duce has come from a. mixed, or a pure, past. In such