Leviticus 19
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Laws of Holiness
1The Lord spoke to Moses: 2“Speak to the entire Israelite community and tell them: Be holy#Ex 19:5–6 because I, the Lord your God, am holy.#Lv 11:44; 21:8
3“Each of you is to respect his mother and father.#Ex 20:12; 21:15 You are to keep my Sabbaths; I am the Lord your God. 4Do not turn to worthless idols#Lv 26:1 or make cast images#Nm 33:52 of gods for yourselves;#Ex 20:3,23; 32:31; Dt 4:15–16 I am the Lord your God.
5“When you offer a fellowship sacrifice to the Lord, sacrifice it so that you may be accepted. 6It is to be eaten on the day you sacrifice it or on the next day, but what remains on the third day must be burned.#Lv 7:17 7If any is eaten on the third day, it is a repulsive thing; it will not be accepted.#Lv 1:4 8Anyone who eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned what is holy to the Lord. That person is to be cut off from his people.#Lv 7:18,20
9“When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edge of your field or gather the gleanings#Lv 23:22; Dt 24:19–22; Ru 2:2–7,15–19,23; Is 17:5 of your harvest. 10Do not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor#Dt 15:11 and the resident alien;#Ex 2:22; Dt 24:20–21; Is 17:5–6; 24:13 I am the Lord your God.
11“Do not steal.#Ex 20:15; 22:1; Rm 13:9; Eph 4:28 Do not act deceptively#Pr 30:9; Is 30:9; 59:13; Jr 5:12; Hs 4:2; 7:3; 9:2; 10:13; Nah 3:1; Hab 3:17; Zch 13:4 or lie#Gn 21:23; Ex 20:16; 1Sm 15:29; Ps 44:18; 89:34; Is 63:8; Eph 4:25 to one another. 12Do not swear falsely by my name, profaning the name of your God;#Ex 20:7; Lv 18:21; 20:3; Mal 3:5; Jms 5:12 I am the Lord.
13“Do not oppress#Dt 24:14 your neighbor or rob#Dt 28:29 him. The wages due a hired worker#Ex 12:45; 22:14; Lv 22:10; 25:6,40,50,53; Is 7:20; Jr 46:21; Ezk 18:7; Mal 3:5; Jms 5:4 must not remain with you until morning. 14Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind,#Ex 4:11; Dt 27:18 but you are to fear your God;#Ps 147:11; Pr 1:7; Ac 10:2; Rv 14:7 I am the Lord.#Ex 31:13
15“Do not act unjustly#Dt 25:16 when deciding a case. Do not be partial#Ex 23:2–3; Dt 1:17; Jms 2:9 to the poor or give preference to the rich;#Gn 24:35; Jb 34:19 judge your neighbor fairly. 16Do not go about spreading slander#Ps 15:3; Jr 6:28; 9:4; Lk 6:22; 2Co 6:8; 12:20; Eph 4:31; Col 3:8; Ti 3:2; 1Pt 2:1; 4:4; Rv 2:9 among your people; do not jeopardize#19:16 Lit not stand against your neighbor’s life; I am the Lord.
17“Do not harbor hatred against your brother.#19:17 Or your fellow Israelite#2Th 3:15; 1Jn 2:9,11; 3:15; 4:20 Rebuke your neighbor directly, and you will not incur guilt because of him.#Pr 9:8; 27:5; Ezk 3:18; Mt 18:15; Gl 6:1 18Do not take revenge#Dt 32:35; Pr 20:22; Rm 12:17,19; Heb 10:30; Rv 19:2 or bear a grudge against members of your community, but love your neighbor as yourself;#Pr 17:17; Mt 5:43; 22:39; Mk 12:31; Lk 10:27; Rm 13:9; Gl 5:14; Jms 2:8 I am the Lord.
19“You are to keep my statutes. Do not crossbreed two different kinds of your livestock, sow your fields with two kinds of seed, or put on a garment made of two kinds of material.#Dt 22:9–11
20“If a man has sexual intercourse with a woman who is a slave designated for another man, but she has not been redeemed#Ex 6:6; 21:7–11; Lv 27:29; Dt 22:23–27 or given her freedom, there must be punishment.#19:20 Or compensation They are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed. 21However, he must bring a ram as his guilt#19:21 Or restitution offering to the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting.#Ex 27:21 22The priest will 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 for the sin he committed.
23“When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you are to consider the fruit forbidden.#19:23 Lit uncircumcised It will be forbidden to you for three years; it is not to be eaten. 24In the fourth year all its fruit is to be consecrated as a praise offering#Jdg 9:27 to the Lord. 25But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit. In this way its yield will increase for you;#Lv 25:18–22 I am the Lord your God.
26“You are not to eat anything with blood in it.#19:26 Or anything over its blood#Gn 9:4; Lv 3:17; 17:10–12; 1Sm 14:32–35; Ezk 33:25 You are not to practice divination#1Kg 20:33 or witchcraft.#Dt 18:10,14; Jdg 9:37; 2Kg 21:6; 2Ch 33:6; Is 2:6; 57:3; Jr 27:9 27You are not to cut off the hair at the sides of your head or mar the edge of your beard.#Lv 21:5; Dt 14:1; 2Sm 10:4–5; Jr 41:5; 48:37; Ezk 5:1–5; 44:20 28You are not to make gashes on your bodies for the dead#1Kg 18:28; Jr 16:6; 41:5; 47:5; 48:37 or put tattoo marks on yourselves; I am the Lord.
29“Do not debase#19:29 Lit profane#Lv 21:12 your daughter by making her a prostitute,#Ex 34:31; Lv 21:9; Dt 23:17–18 or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity. 30Keep my Sabbaths and revere my sanctuary;#Ex 15:17; Lv 20:3; 26:2; Nm 19:20 I am the Lord.
31“Do not turn to mediums#19:31 Or spirits of the dead#Lv 20:6 or consult spiritists,#19:31 Or familiar spirits#Dt 18:11; Ac 16:16 or you will be defiled by them; I am the Lord your God.
32“You are to rise in the presence of the elderly and honor the old.#Jb 12:12; 32:4; Pr 23:22; Lm 5:12; 1Tm 5:1 Fear your God; I am the Lord.
33“When an alien resides with you in your land, you must not oppress#Dt 23:16 him. 34You will regard the alien who resides with you as the native-born among you. You are to love him as yourself,#Lv 19:18 for you were aliens in the land of Egypt;#Ex 23:9; Lv 18:3; Dt 10:19; 23:7 I am the Lord your God.
35“Do not be unfair#Dt 25:16 in measurements of length, weight, or volume. 36You are to have honest balances,#Hs 12:8; Am 8:5; Mc 6:11 honest weights, an honest dry measure,#19:36 Lit honest ephah and an honest liquid measure;#19:36 Lit honest hin#Dt 25:13–16; Pr 16:11; Ezk 45:10 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. 37Keep all my statutes and all my ordinances and do them; I am the Lord.”
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Leviticus 19
19
Moral and Religious Laws
1The Lord told Moses 2#Lv 11.44,45; 1 P 1.16. to say to the community of Israel:
I am the Lord your God. I am holy, and you must be holy too! 3-4#Ex 20.12; Dt 5.16; Ex 20.8; Dt 5.12; Lv 26.1; Ex 20.23; 34.17; Dt 17.2-7. Respect your father and your mother, honor the Sabbath, and don't make idols or images. I am the Lord your God.
5When you offer a sacrifice to ask my blessing,#19.5 sacrifice … to ask my blessing: See the note at 3.1. be sure to follow my instructions. 6You may eat the meat either on the day of the sacrifice or on the next day, but you must burn anything left over on the third day. 7If you eat any of it on the third day, the sacrifice will be disgusting to me, and I will reject it. 8In fact, you will be punished for not respecting what I say is holy, and you will no longer belong to the community of Israel.
9 #
Lv 23.22; Dt 24.19-22. When you harvest your grain, always leave some of it standing along the edges of your fields and don't pick up what falls on the ground. 10Don't strip your grapevines clean or gather the grapes that fall off the vines. Leave them for the poor and for those foreigners who live among you. I am the Lord your God.
11 #
Ex 20.15; Dt 5.19;
Ex 20.16; Dt 5.20. Do not steal or tell lies or cheat others.
12 #
Ex 20.7; Dt 5.11; Mt 5.33. Do not misuse my name by making promises you don't intend to keep. I am the Lord your God.
13 #
Dt 24.14,15. Do not steal anything or cheat anyone, and don't fail to pay your workers at the end of each day.#19.13 to pay … end of each day: Day laborers needed their wages to buy food for their evening meal, which was the main meal of the day.
14 #
Dt 27.14-26. I am the Lord your God, and I command you not to make fun of the deaf or to cause a blind person to stumble.
15 #
Ex 23.6-8; Dt 16.19. Be fair, no matter who is on trial—don't favor either the poor or the rich.
16Don't be a gossip, but never hesitate to speak up in court, especially if your testimony can save someone's life.#19.16 but never … someone's life: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
17 #
Mt 18.15. Don't hold grudges. On the other hand, it's wrong not to correct someone who needs correcting. 18#Mt 5.43; 19.19; 22.39; Mk 12.31; Lk 10.27; Ro 13.9; Ga 5.14; Jas 2.8. Don't be angry or try to take revenge. I am the Lord, and I command you to love others as much as you love yourself.
19 #
Dt 22.9-11. Breed your livestock animals only with animals of the same kind, and don't plant two kinds of seed in the same field or wear clothes made of different kinds of material.
20If a man has sex with a slave woman who is promised in marriage to someone else, he must pay a fine, but they are not to be put to death. After all, she was still a slave at the time.#19.20 time: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 20. 21-22The man must bring a ram to the entrance of the sacred tent and give it to a priest, who will then offer it as a sacrifice to me, so the man's sins will be forgiven.
23After you enter the land, you will plant fruit trees, but you are not to eat any fruit from them for the first three years. 24In the fourth year the fruit must be set apart, as an expression of thanks 25to me, the Lord God. Do this, and in the fifth year, those trees will produce an abundant harvest of fruit for you to eat.
26 #
Gn 9.4; Lv 7.26,27; 17.10-14; Dt 12.5-19,23,24; 15.23;
Dt 18.10,11. Don't eat the blood of any animal.
Don't practice any kind of witchcraft.
27-28 #
Lv 21.5; Dt 14.1. I forbid you to shave any part of your head or beard or to cut and tattoo yourself as a way of worshiping the dead.
29 #
Dt 23.17. Don't let your daughters serve as temple prostitutes—this would bring disgrace both to them and the land.
30 #
Lv 26.2. I command you to respect the Sabbath and the place where I am worshiped.
31 #
Dt 18.10,11; 1 S 28.1-3; 2 K 23.4; Is 8.19. Don't make yourselves disgusting to me by going to people who claim they can talk to the dead.
32I command you to show respect for older people and to obey me with fear and trembling.
33 #
Ex 22.21; Dt 24.17,18; 27.14-26. Don't mistreat any foreigners who live in your land. 34Instead, treat them as well as you treat your own people and love them as much as you love yourself. Remember, you were once foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.
35-36 #
Dt 25.13-16; Pr 20.10; Ez 45.10. Use honest scales and don't cheat when you weigh or measure anything.
I am the Lord your God. I rescued you from Egypt, 37and I command you to obey my laws.
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