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"Thou shall not plow with an ox and an ass together." לא תַחֲרֹשׁ בְּשׁוֹר וּבַחֲמֹר יַחְדָּו Deuteronomy 20 (circa 1890) -- from an earlier posting |
View the earlier feature here.
Recently, we discovered in the medical archives of the Dundee University in Scotland the picture below with the same subjects -- an ox and a donkey pulling a plow. The picture was taken by the head of the Scots Mission Hospital in Tiberias, Herbert Torrance, who was both a doctor and a Christian missionary who undoubtedly also knew his Bible well.
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"Plowing with an ox and an ass" (April, 1929, Torrance Collection, University of Dundee) |
And we have been subjected to coalition governments of that sort ever since.
ReplyDeleteWas the command to not pair them together because the oxen would have been over yoked? I know G-d has a good reason for commanding it.
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