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all those hygiene rules from the Creator Himself,....There were a lot of regulations concerning health for the Israelites to follow that make a lot more sense now that we know some of the *why* for why they are effective,

EXCELLENT point and something I hadn't thought about or heard before.

[metmom]

Read them through sometime and think about what we know about bacteria.

Or sterile offspring from hybridization....

Leviticus 19:19 “ ‘Keep my decrees.
“ ‘Do not mate different kinds of animals.
“ ‘Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed.
“ ‘Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.

There was also the concept of allowing the ground to rest and go fallow.