divers kind] The reason of this was; that the order of nature, in the distinct kinds of creatures, might be preserved; and with this there was implied an instruction against mixtures of Religion; as the prohibition of mingling of seed of severall sorts, and the wearing of a Linsey-woolsey garment, in this verse, was a document or lesson of simplicitie, or sinceritie, against double-dealing. Object. But the Jewes had many Mules, which proceed from the mixture of an Horse and an Asse, and therefore it is like, they observed not this rule: Answ. There are, that doe affirme, that Mules, are male and female, and doe ingender in their own kind; but if they doe not, they might be stored with Mules, in Faires, and Markets, Ezekiel 27:14.