Does the Bible Forbid a Woman to Wear Slacks or a Pant-Suit?
• tweetmeme_url = “http://www.christiancourier.com/articles/365-does-the-bible-forbid-a-woman-to-wear-slacks-or-a-pant-suit”; tweetmeme_source = ‘jared_jackson’; tweetmeme_service = ‘bit.ly’; • Share “Would you explain Deuteronomy 22:5. ‘The woman shall not wear that which pertains unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment for all who do so are an abomination unto the Lord your God.’ Does this passage forbid a woman to wear slacks or a pant-suit?” A careful consideration of Deuteronomy, chapter 22, reveals a number of commands that are strange to the modern mind. For example, if a man discovered a bird sitting upon eggs, he might take the eggs but not the bird (22:6-7). Different kinds of seeds could not be planted in one’s vineyard (9). The Hebrew farmer was not to yoke together an ox and a donkey for plowing (10). A Jew was forbidden to wear a garment containing two types of cloth (e.g., wool and linen – 11), and so on. Among these regulations, then, is the admonition
