Leviticus 19
The Lord Is Holy
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, aYou shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. 3 aEvery one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and byou shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. 4 aDo not turn to idols bor make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the Lord your God.
5 a“When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, you shall offer it so bthat you may be accepted. 6 It shall be eaten the same day you offer it or on the day after, and anything left over until the third day shall be burned up with fire. 7 If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is atainted; it will not be accepted, 8 and everyone who eats it shall abear his iniquity, because bhe has profaned what is holy to the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from his people.
Love Your Neighbor as Yourself
9 a“When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. 10 And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.
11 a“You shall not steal; byou shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another. 12 aYou shall not swear by my name falsely, and so bprofane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
13 a“You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. bThe wages of a hired worker shall not remain with you all night until the morning. 14 aYou shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall bfear your God: I am the Lord.
15 a“You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor. 16 aYou shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not bstand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the Lord.
17 a“You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but byou shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you cincur sin because of him. 18 aYou shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but byou shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
You Shall Keep My Statutes
19 a“You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. bYou shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.
20 “If a man lies sexually with a woman who is a slave, assigned to another man and not yet ransomed or given her freedom, a distinction shall be made. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free; 21 but ahe shall bring his compensation to the Lord, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, a ram for a guilt offering. 22 And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the Lord for his sin that he has committed, and he shall be forgiven for the sin that he has committed.
23 “When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, then you shall regard its fruit as forbidden. Three years it shall be forbidden to you; it must not be eaten. 24 And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the Lord. 25 But in the fifth year you may eat of its fruit, to increase its yield for you: I am the Lord your God.
26 a“You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. bYou shall not interpret omens or ctell fortunes. 27 aYou shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard. 28 You shall not make any acuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.
29 a“Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, lest the land fall into prostitution and the land become full of depravity. 30 aYou shall keep my Sabbaths and breverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
31 a“Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.
32 a“You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall bfear your God: I am the Lord.
33 a“When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. 34 aYou shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and byou shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
35 a“You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity. 36 aYou shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. 37 And ayou shall observe all my statutes and all my rules, and do them: I am the Lord.”
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