of seeds, animals, and materials together were designed to discourage and prevent the Israelites from imitating the fertility cult practices of the Canaanites. This wasn’t gardening advice or a set of random, pointless rules. It was a very specific way for God to tell his people, the ones he rescued from slavery in Egypt, that they were not to be like the other people living around them. They were not to participate in fertility rites patterned after the worship rituals of false gods.
