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Deuteronomy 22:10

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You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

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Verse 10. Plough. In Levit. 19:19, this law is expressed, so as to forbid the procreation of mongrels. See Judges 14:18. People who have treated on agriculture observe, that it is a pernicious practice to make animals of unequal size and speed work together. Colum. 6:2.—Saint Paul explains to us the mystical sense of this passage. Bear not the yoke together with infidels, 2 Corinthians 6:14. Calmet.—Marry not with such. Bible.—Employ not in the sacred ministry the imprudent and wicked with those of a virtuous disposition. Saint Gregory Mor. i. 16.

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