John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 9. Thou shall not sow thy vineyards with divers seeds , etc.] As wheat and barley between the rows of the vines; and this is to be understood only of divers sorts of corn, and of divers sorts of herbs, but not of trees; hence we read of a fig tree in a vineyard, ( Luke 13:6), and this only respects what is sown with design, and not what is casual, as the Jews interpret it f356 ; “if a man passes through a vineyard, and seeds fall from him, or they are carried out along with dung, or with water; or when a man is sowing, and a storm of wind carries it behind him (i.e. to a vineyard behind him), it is lawful;” that is, it may be let grow, and the fruit of it enjoyed; the same here is said of the vineyard as of the field in (see Gill on “ Leviticus 19:19”); lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard; be defiled ; that is, lest not only the increase of these divers seeds sown, but also the increase of the vines among which they are sown, become unlawful, and unfit for use, and so a loss of all be sustained: the Targum of Jonathan is, “lest it be condemned to burning;” or thou art obliged to burn it; for, according to the Jewish canons f357 , the mixtures of a vineyard, or the divers seeds of it, and the increase thereof, were to be burnt; and the commentators of the Misnah frequently explain this phrase by “lest it be burnt ”.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 5-12 - God's providence extends itself to the smallest affairs, and his precepts do so, that even in them we may be in the fear of the Lord, a we are under his eye and care. Yet the tendency of these laws, whic seem little, is such, that being found among the things of God's law they are to be accounted great things. If we would prove ourselves to be God's people, we must have respect to his will and to his glory, an not to the vain fashions of the world. Even in putting on our garments as in eating or in drinking, all must be done with a serious regard to preserve our own and others' purity in heart and actions. Our ey should be single, our heart simple, and our behaviour all of a piece.
Original Hebrew לא3808 תזרע2232 כרמך3754 כלאים3610 פן6435 תקדשׁ6942 המלאה4395 הזרע2233 אשׁר834 תזרע2232 ותבואת8393 הכרם׃3754
