Wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together: this old English means to wear clothing made of wool and linen woven together. Where weaving is unknown, or where wool and linen are also unknown, it is possible to say simply “clothes made of two different kinds of thread.”

Quoted with permission from Bratcher, Robert G. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on Deuteronomy. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2000. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .