Leviticus 19
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1The Lord told Moses, 2“Tell all the Israelites: You must be holy because I am holy; I am the Lord your God.
3Show respect for your mother and father, and keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
4Don't turn to idols for help or make metal images of gods. I am the Lord your God.
5When you sacrifice a peace offering to the Lord, make sure you do it correctly so God will accept you. 6It needs to be eaten the day you sacrifice it, or the next day. Whatever is left over on the third day must be burned. 7If you do eat some of it on the third day, the sacrifice becomes repulsive and won't be accepted. 8Anyone who eats it will bear responsibility for their guilt, for they have made unclean what is holy to the Lord. They must be expelled from their people.
9When you harvest the crops grown on your land, don't harvest right up to the edges of your field, or collect what has been missed. 10Don't take every last grape from your vineyard or pick up the ones that have fallen. Leave them for the poor people and foreigners. I am the Lord your God.
11Don't steal. Don't lie. Don't deceive each other.
12Don't swear oaths in my name that are not true, otherwise you defame the character#19:12. Literally, “name.” Throughout Scripture “name” is related to aspects of character. of your God. I am the Lord.
13Don't cheat others or rob them. Don't refuse to pay wages due to workers until the morning.
14Don't speak badly about deaf people. Don't put objects in the way of blind people to trip them up. Instead show respect to your God. I am the Lord.
15Don't be a corrupt judge. Don't show favoritism to the poor or to the rich. Judge others fairly.
16Don't go around spreading false rumors about people. Don't keep quiet when the lives of others are at risk.#19:16. Literally, “don't stand still on the blood of your neighbor.” I am the Lord.
17Don't hold onto hateful feelings towards others. Talk honestly with your neighbors, so that you don't sin because of them. 18Don't look for revenge or hold a grudge against anybody, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.
19Do what I tell you! Don't make different kinds of livestock breed together. Don't sow your fields with two different kinds of seed. Don't wear clothes made of two different kinds of material.
20If a man has sex with a servant girl promised to become another man's wife, but who hasn't yet been bought or set free, then compensation has to be paid. However, they are not to be killed, because she hadn't been set free. 21But the man must bring a ram as his guilt offering to the Lord at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. 22The priest will set things right for him before the Lord using the ram of the guilt offering for the sin he has committed, and his sin will be forgiven.
23When you enter the land and plant any kind of fruit tree, treat the fruit at first as unclean.#19:23. “Unclean”: literally, “uncircumcised.” For three years you are forbidden to eat it. 24The fourth year all the fruit must be dedicated to the Lord as a praise offering. 25However, the fifth year you may eat the fruit and in this way you will have an even greater harvest. I am the Lord your God.
26Don't eat meat with blood in it. Don't use fortune-telling or witchcraft.
27Don't cut your hair on the sides of your head or trim the sides of your beard,#19:27. It is thought that this prohibition is associated with the next regarding some pagan ceremony. 28don't cut your bodies in some pagan ritual for the dead, and don't get yourselves tattoos. I am the Lord.
29Don't bring shame on your daughter by making her a prostitute, otherwise the land will become morally and spiritually depraved.
30Keep my Sabbaths and show respect for my sanctuary. I am the Lord.
31Don't try and find help from mediums or spiritists—don't even go looking for them, otherwise they will corrupt you. I am the Lord your God.
32Stand up and be respectful of older people. Show reverence for your God. I am the Lord.
33Don't mistreat foreigners who live in your country. 34Treat them in the same way as a fellow citizen, and love them as you love yourself, because you were once foreigners living in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.
35Don't use dishonest weights and measures. 36Make sure your scales and weights are accurate, that your measures of ephah and hin are correct. I am the Lord your God who led you out of Egypt.
37Keep all my rules and regulations, and make sure you follow them. I am the Lord.”
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Leviticus 19
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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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