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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1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 Speak to the entire assembly of the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: Be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.
3 Let each one fear his father and his mother. Observe my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
4 Do not be willing to convert to idols, neither should you make molten gods for yourselves. I am the Lord your God.
5 If you immolate a victim of peace offerings to the Lord, so that he may be appeased,
6 you shall eat it on the same day as when it was immolated, and the next day. Then whatever will remain on the third day you shall burn with fire.
7 If anyone, after two days, will have eaten from it, he shall be profane and guilty of impiety.
8 And he shall bear his iniquity, for he has polluted what is holy to the Lord. And that soul shall perish from his people.
9 When you will have harvested the grain fields of your land, you shall not cut it down to the surface of the land, even to the ground, nor shall you gather the remaining ears of grain.
10 Neither shall you gather the clusters or individual grapes which fall down in your vineyard, but you shall leave them for paupers and travelers to take. I am the Lord your God.
11 You shall not steal. You shall not lie. Neither shall anyone deceive his neighbor.
12 You shall not commit perjury in my name, nor shall you pollute the name of your God. I am the Lord.
13 You shall not slander your neighbor, nor shall you oppress him by violence. The wages of a hired hand, you shall not delay with you until tomorrow.
14 You shall not speak evil of the deaf, nor shall you place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear the Lord your God, for I am the Lord.
15 You shall not do what is unjust, nor shall you judge unjustly. You shall not consider the reputation of the poor, nor shall you honor the countenance of the powerful. Judge your neighbor justly.
16 You shall not be a detractor, nor a whisperer, among the people. You shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor. I am the Lord.
17 You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but reprove him openly, lest you have sin over him.
18 Do not seek revenge, neither should you be mindful of the injury of your fellow citizens. You shall love your friend as yourself. I am the Lord.
19 Observe my laws. You shall not cause your cattle to breed with other kinds of animals. You shall not sow your field with diverse seeds. You shall not be clothed with a garment which has been woven from two things.
20 If a man will have slept in sexual intercourse with a woman, who is a servant and who is also able to be married, and yet he has not redeemed her with a price, nor paid to set her free, they both shall be beaten, but they shall not die, for she was not a free woman.
21 But, for his offense, he shall offer a ram to the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.
22 And the priest shall pray for him, and for his sin, before the Lord, and he shall win his favor again for him, and the sin shall be forgiven.
23 When you will have entered into the land, and will have planted in it fruit trees, you shall take away their first-fruits; the fruit that germinates shall be unclean to you, neither shall you eat from these.
24 But in the fourth year, all their fruit shall be sanctified for the praise of the Lord.
25 And in the fifth year you shall eat the produce, gathering the fruits which are brought forth. I am the Lord your God.
26 You shall not eat with blood. You shall not practice divination, nor the observation of dreams.
27 And you shall not cut the hair of your head circularly, nor shave your beard.
28 You shall not cut your flesh for the dead, and you shall not make other figures or marks on yourself. I am the Lord.
29 Do not prostitute your daughter, lest the land be contaminated and filled with crimes.
30 Observe my Sabbaths, and be apprehensive toward my Sanctuary. I am the Lord.
31 Do not turn aside to astrologers, nor consult with soothsayers, so as to be polluted through them. I am the Lord your God.
32 Rise up in the presence of a gray-haired head, and honor the reputation of an elder, and fear the Lord your God. I am the Lord.
33 If a newcomer lives in your land and abides among you, do not reproach him,
34 but let him be among you like one native born. And you shall love him as yourselves. For you were also newcomers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.
35 Do not be willing to accomplish iniquity in judgment, in lengths, in weights, in quantities.
36 Let the scales be just and the weights equal, let the dry measure be just and the liquid measure be equal. I am the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of Egypt.
37 Keep all my precepts, and all my judgments, and accomplish them. I am the Lord.
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