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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Leviticus 19
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1And the Lord said to Moses, 2#Lev 11.44,45; 20.7,26; 1 Pet 1.16. “Say to all the congregation of the people of Israel, You shall be holy; for I the Lord your God am holy. 3#Ex 20.12; Deut 5.16; Ex 20.8; 23.12; 34.21; 35.23; Deut 5.12-15. Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. 4#Ex 20.4; Lev 26.1; Deut 4.15-19; 27.15. Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.
5“When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted. 6It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, or on the morrow; and anything left over until the third day shall be burned with fire. 7If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination; it will not be accepted, 8and every one who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned a holy thing of the Lord; and that person shall be cut off from his people.
9 #
Lev 23.22; Deut 24.20,21. “When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field to its very border, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. 10And 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 #
Ex 20.15,16; Deut 5.19. “You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. 12#Ex 20.7; Deut 5.11; Mt 5.33. And you shall not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
13 #
Deut 24.15; Jas 5.4. “You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning. 14#Deut 27.18. You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.
15 #
Ex 23.6; Deut 1.17. “You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor. 16You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand forth against the life#19.16 Heb blood of your neighbor: I am the Lord.
17“You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason with your neighbor, lest you bear sin because of him. 18#Mt 5.43; 19.19; 22.39; Mk 12.31; Lk 10.27; Rom 13.9; Gal 5.14; Jas 2.8. You shall not take vengeance or bear any grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
19 #
Deut 22.9,11. “You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; nor shall there come upon you a garment of cloth made of two kinds of stuff.
20“If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave, betrothed to another man and not yet ransomed or given her freedom, an inquiry shall be held. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free; 21but he shall bring a guilt offering for himself to the Lord, to the door of the tent of meeting, a ram for a guilt offering. 22And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the Lord for his sin which he has committed; and the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him.
23“When you come into the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden;#19.23 Heb their uncircumcision three years it shall be forbidden to you, it must not be eaten. 24And in the fourth year all their fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the Lord. 25But in the fifth year you may eat of their fruit, that they may yield more richly for you: I am the Lord your God.
26 #
Lev 3.17; 7.26,27; 17.10-16; Deut 12.16,23-25; 18.10. “You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not practice augury or witchcraft. 27#Lev 21.5; Deut 14.1. You shall not round off the hair on you temples or mar the edges of your beard. 28You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh on account of the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
29 #
Deut 23.17,18. “Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry and the land become full of wickedness. 30#Ex 20.8-11; 23.12; 34.21; 35.2,3; Lev 19.3; 26.2; Deut 5.12-15. You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
31 #
Lev 20.6,27. “Do not turn to mediums or wizards; do not seek them out, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.
32“You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.
33 #
Ex 22.21. “When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. 34The stranger who sojourns with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
35“You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity. 36You 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. 37And you shall observe all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them: I am the Lord.”
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