“A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment, for all who do so are an abomination to the Lord your God...You shall not wear a garment of different sorts, such as wool and linen mixed together." v.5,11
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Unisex clothes. This idea first came in to the English language in a Time magazine in 1968. Unisex clothing was described as "good fashion as well as good fun." Yet to God in this verse meant an abomination of cross-dressing. "Not wear anything that pertains to a man" could be a variety of sorts back then like a sword, tools, and certain clothing. So what does that mean for us today? This was the Mosaic Law that isn't commanded to us to uphold today, we can still learn principles from it. Some churches use this verse to tell how men and women must dress, yet what about the changes in culture where Semitic men wore earrings and other jewelry yet is frowned upon in those same churches today? Today we can't even determine what things are only masculine and what are only feminine and would change from culture to culture. God made man in His image (Gen. 1:27), and man and woman were to be equal yet distinct from each other. The principle seems to be to not confuse sexual distinction for how God created you as a man or as a woman and honor God's order and avoid confusion and sin.
Seems silly a command to not wear a garment of mixed sorts such as wool and linen. I'm not really sure why this was, but who would want to wear a garment of wool and linen mix any way? But maybe also Christians are not to mix with the ways of the world that bring confusion.
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