the command is recorded: “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers” (6:14a). The expression occurs nowhere else. The word is heterozugeō, which employs the word heteros, signifying others of a different kind. Paul had in mind the Old Testament law: “Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together,” one a clean animal, the other an unclean animal, the one a tall animal, the other a short animal (Deut. 22:10). This is a wise and wide-ranging prohibition. It frowns upon the marriage of