Leviticus 19

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Commandments for Holiness

¹Then the LORD said to Moses,

¹And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,

²“Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.^a

²“Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: You shall be holy, for I am holy—YHWH your God.

³Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

³Each man shall fear his mother and his father, and you shall keep My Sabbaths. I am YHWH your God.

⁴Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.

⁴You shall not turn to the idols, and you shall not make molten gods for yourselves. I am YHWH your God.

⁵When you sacrifice a peace offering to the LORD, you shall offer it for your acceptance.

⁵And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of peace offerings to YHWH, you shall sacrifice it for your acceptance.

⁶It shall be eaten on the day you sacrifice it, or on the next day; but what remains on the third day must be burned up.

⁶It shall be eaten on the day of your sacrificing and on the next day. and the remainder until the third day, it shall be burned in the fire.

⁷If any of it is eaten on the third day, it is tainted and will not be accepted.

⁷And if any of it is eaten on the third day, it is an abomination; it shall not be accepted.

⁸Whoever eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person must be cut off from his people.

⁸And the one who eats it shall bear his iniquity because he has profaned the holy thing of YHWH, and that soul shall be cut off from his people.

Love Your Neighbor

⁹When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.

⁹And in your reaping the harvest of your land, you shall not complete reaping the edge of your field, and the gleanings of your harvest you shall not gather.

¹⁰You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.

¹⁰And your vineyard—you shall not glean, and the fallen grapes of your vineyard you shall not gather. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner. I am YHWH your God.

¹¹You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.

¹¹You shall not steal, and you shall not deal falsely, and you shall not lie—a man to his neighbor.

¹²You must not swear falsely by My name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

¹²And you shall not swear by My name to a lie and so profane the name of your God. I am YHWH.

¹³You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him.

You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.

¹³You shall not oppress your neighbor, and you shall not rob. The wage of a hireling shall not remain with you until morning.

¹⁴You must not curse the deaf or place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.

¹⁴You shall not curse the deaf, and before the face of the blind you shall not put a stumbling block, and you shall fear your God. I am YHWH.

¹⁵You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.

¹⁵You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not lift up the face of the poor, and you shall not honor the face of the great; in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.

¹⁶You must not go about spreading slander among your people.

You must not endanger the life^a of your neighbor. I am the LORD.

¹⁶You shall not go about as a slanderer among your people. You shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor. I am YHWH.

¹⁷You must not harbor hatred against your brother in your heart. Directly rebuke your neighbor, so that you will not incur guilt on account of him.

¹⁷You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor and you shall not you shall not lift up upon him sin.

¹⁸Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself.^a I am the LORD.

¹⁸You shall not take vengeance, and you shall not bear a grudge against sons of your people, and you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am YHWH.

Keep My Statutes

¹⁹You are to keep My statutes. You shall not crossbreed two different kinds of livestock; you shall not sow your fields with two kinds of seed; and you shall not wear clothing made of two kinds of material.

¹⁹My statutes you shall keep: Your livestock you shall not cause to breed with two kinds; your field you shall not sow with two kinds, and a garment of two kinds of mixed material shall not go up upon you.

²⁰If a man lies carnally with a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. But they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.

²⁰And when a man lies with a woman, a lying of seed, and she is a maidservant betrothed to a man and has not been redeemed at all, or freedom has not been given to her, there shall be punishment. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

²¹The man, however, must bring a ram to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting as his guilt offering to the LORD.

²¹And he shall bring his guilt offering to YHWH, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, a ram of a guilt offering.

²²The priest shall make atonement on his behalf before the LORD with the ram of the guilt offering for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven the sin he has committed.

²²And the priest shall make atonement upon him with the ram of the guilt offering before the face of YHWH, upon his sin that he has sinned, and it shall be forgiven for him from his sin that he has sinned.

²³When you enter the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you shall regard the fruit as forbidden.^a For three years it will be forbidden to you and must not be eaten.

²³And when you come into the land, and you plant every kind of tree for food, then you shall regard their fruit uncircumcised. Three years it shall be uncircumcised to you; it shall not be eaten.

²⁴In the fourth year all its fruit must be consecrated as a praise offering to the LORD.

²⁴And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy praises to YHWH.

²⁵But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit; thus your harvest will be increased. I am the LORD your God.

²⁵And in the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, to add to you its yield. I am YHWH your God.

²⁶You must not eat anything with blood still in it.

You must not practice divination or sorcery.

²⁶You shall not eat with the blood. You shall not practice divination, and you shall not practice soothsaying.

²⁷You must not cut off the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.

²⁷You shall not round off the edge of your head, and you shall not destroy the edge of your beard.

²⁸You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.

²⁸And a cutting for a soul you shall not make in your flesh, and a tattoo mark you shall not put on yourselves. I am YHWH.

²⁹You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

²⁹You shall not profane your daughter by making her practice prostitution, and the land will not practice prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.

³⁰You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.

³⁰My Sabbaths you shall keep, and My sanctuary you shall fear. I am YHWH.

³¹You must not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out, or you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.

³¹You shall not turn to the mediums and to the spiritists; you shall not seek after them to be defiled by them. I am YHWH your God.

³²You are to rise in the presence of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.

³²Before the face of the gray headed you shall rise, and you shall honor the presence of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am YHWH.

³³When a foreigner resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him.

³³And if a sojourner sojourns with you in your land, you shall not oppress him.

³⁴You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

³⁴As a native from among you shall be to you the sojourner who is sojourning with you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. I am YHWH your God.

³⁵You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.

³⁵You shall not do injustice in judgment in measure, in weight, and in volume.

³⁶You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah,^a and an honest hin.^b I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

³⁶Righteous scales, righteous stones, a righteous ephah, and a righteous hin shall be unto you. I am YHWH your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

³⁷You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and follow them. I am the LORD.”

³⁷And you shall keep all My statutes and all My judgments, and you shall do them. I am YHWH.”