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Is the mule industry sinful?

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1 Chron 12 and 2 Chron 9 mention mules. Ps 32 God says not to behave like the mule. Zech 14:15 mentions both mules and donkeys. I don't think they are sinful but am not certain they are best.
 
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Is it not forbidden by law? since donkeys and horses are different species. Buying/selling etc seems poor practice as it encourages the industry. And certainly making them, at least according to law.
Romans 6:14-15
(14) For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
(15) What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Galatians 3:10-11
(10) For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
(11) But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
Galatians 5:18
(18) But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
 
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So although breeding a horse with a donkey is against the law it is not sinful?
 
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Do you have a text about breeding donkey's and horses?
Leviticus 19:19 "Do not mate different kinds of animals"

A donkey and a horse are different kinds of animals (that's how you make mules). Mules are also infertile so each mule you see is the direct result of the union of a donkey and a horse.

Here's Rabbi Jack Abramowitz thoughts
"Halachically, horses, donkeys, mules and hinnies are all considered different species, so don’t try to mate any of them with any others."
 
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So although breeding a horse with a donkey is against the law it is not sinful?
Acts 15:10
(10) Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Acts 15:20
(20) But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Acts 15:28-29
(28) For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
(29) That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Acts 21:25
(25) As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
 
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Animals know no sin .... however, they have and do suffer the consequences of it. Animals do many things they were not originally created to do (a result of a fallen world)

A mule is a hybrid of a female horse and a male donkey. Mules are infertile because they have an odd number of chromosomes. This is due to a horse having 64 chromosomes and a donkey having 62 chromosomes. This prevents the mule from creating gametes.

This does occur in the wild as well.
 
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Animals know no sin
The question is about the industry not the animal.
This does occur in the wild as well.

I'm also not so sure about wild horses and wild donkeys breeding together naturally. Where is this land of intermingled wild horses and wild donkeys?
 
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Seems no one cares about horses and donkeys. What about something a little more on the nose like sheep and goats? It's a real thing, they are called geeps or sometimes shoats.
Sheep–goat hybrid - Wikipedia
Is the practice of mating sheep and goats sinful?
 
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