Leviticus 19
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Yahweh Is Holy
1Then#Or “And” Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Speak to all the community of the Israelites,#Literally “sons/children of Israel” and say to them, ‘You#Plural must be holy, because I, Yahweh your#Plural God, am holy. 3Each of you must revere your mother#Hebrew “his mother” and your father,#Hebrew “his father” and you#Plural must keep my Sabbaths; I am Yahweh your#Plural God. 4You#Plural must not turn to idols, and you#Plural must not make for yourselves gods of cast metal; I am Yahweh your#Plural God.
5“ ‘And when you#Plural sacrifice a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to Yahweh, you#Plural must sacrifice it for your#Plural acceptance. 6It must be eaten on the day of your#Plural sacrifice and the next day; but#Or “and” the remainder must be burned up in the fire by the third day. 7And if it is indeed eaten on the third day, it is unclean meat; it shall not be regarded as accepted. 8And the one who eats it shall bear his guilt, because he has profaned Yahweh’s holiness, and that person shall be cut off from his people.
Love Your Neighbor as Yourself
9“ ‘And at your#Plural reaping the harvest of your#Plural land you#Singular must not finish reaping the edge of your#Singular field, and you#Singular must not glean the remnants of your#Singular harvest. 10And you#Singular must not glean your#Singular vineyard, and you#Singular must not gather your#Singular vineyard’s fallen grapes; you#Singular must leave them behind for the needy and for the alien; I am Yahweh your#Plural God.
11“ ‘You#Plural shall not steal, and you#Plural shall not deceive, and you#Plural shall not lie to one another;#Literally “a man to his fellow citizen” 12and you#Plural shall not swear falsely#Literally “to the deception” in my name, and so one of you#Singular profane#Or “you shall profane” the name of your#Singular God; I am Yahweh.
13“ ‘You#Singular shall not exploit your#Singular neighbor, and you#Singular shall not rob him; a hired worker’s wage you#Singular shall not withhold#Literally “leave with you” overnight until morning. 14You#Singular shall not curse the deaf, and you#Singular shall not put a stumbling block before#Literally “to the faces of” a blind person, but#Or “and” you#Singular shall revere your#Singular God; I am Yahweh.
15“ ‘You#Plural shall not do injustice in judgment; you#Singular shall not show partiality to the powerless;#Literally “you shall not lift up the faces of the poor/powerless” you#Singular shall not give preference to the powerful;#Literally “faces of the great” you#Singular shall judge your#Singular fellow citizen with justice. 16You#Singular shall not go about with slander among your#Singular people; you#Singular shall not endanger your#Singular neighbor’s life;#Literally “you shall not stand on the blood of your neighbor” I am Yahweh.
17“ ‘You#Singular shall not hate your#Singular brother in your#Singular heart; you#Singular shall surely rebuke your#Singular fellow citizen, so that you#Singular do not incur sin along with#Or “in addition to him”; literally “upon him” him. 18You#Singular shall not seek vengeance, and you#Singular shall not harbor a grudge against your#Singular fellow citizens;#Literally “the sons of your people” and you#Singular shall love your#Singular neighbor like yourself; #Singular I am Yahweh.
You Shall Keep My Statutes
19“ ‘You#Plural must keep my statutes: as for your#Singular domestic animals, you#Singular shall not cause two differing kinds to breed; as for your#Singular field, you#Singular shall not sow two differing kinds of seed; and, a garment of two differing kinds of woven material should not be worn on you.#Singular
20“ ‘And when a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen and she is a female slave promised to a man, but#Or “and” she indeed has not been ransomed or freedom has not be given to her, there shall be an obligation to compensate; they shall not be put to death, because she has not been freed. 21And he shall bring his guilt offering to Yahweh at the tent of assembly’s entrance: a ram for a guilt offering. 22And the priest shall make atonement for him before#Literally “to the faces of” Yahweh with the ram of the guilt offering for his sin that he committed,#Literally “sinned” and so his sin that he committed#Literally “sinned” shall be forgiven him.
23“ ‘And when you#Plural have come into the land and you#Plural plant any tree for#Hebrew “of” food, you#Plural shall regard its fruit as unharvestable;#Literally “and you shall regard its foreskin as uncircumcised its fruit” for three years it shall be forbidden for you; #Plural it shall not be eaten. 24But#Or “And” in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, offerings of praise for Yahweh. 25And in the fifth year you#Plural shall eat its fruit to increase its yield for you; #Plural I am Yahweh your#Plural God.
26“ ‘You#Plural must not eat anything with the blood; you#Plural shall not practice divination, nor shall you#Plural interpret signs. 27You#Plural shall not round off the corner hair of your#Plural head, and you#Singular shall not trim the corner of your#Singular beard. 28And you#Plural shall not make a slash in your#Plural body for a dead person, nor shall you#Plural make on yourselves a tattoo’s mark; I am Yahweh.
29“ ‘You#Singular shall not profane your#Singular daughter by making her a prostitute, lest the land be prostituted and the land fill up with depravity.#Literally “and the land does not prostitute and the land fills up depravity” or “so that the land does not prostitute and the land fills up depravity” 30You#Plural shall keep my Sabbaths, and you#Plural shall revere my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.
31“ ‘You#Plural shall not turn to the mediums and to the soothsayers; you#Plural shall not seek them to become unclean with them; I am Yahweh your#Plural God.
32“ ‘Before#Literally “from the faces of” old age you#Singular shall get up, and you#Singular shall show respect for an old person; and you#Singular shall revere your God; I am Yahweh.
33“ ‘And when an alien dwells with you#Singular in your#Plural land, you#Plural shall not oppress him. 34The alien who is dwelling with you#Plural shall be like a native among you,#Plural and you#Singular shall love him like yourself, #Singular because you#Plural were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am Yahweh your#Plural God.
35“ ‘You#Plural shall not commit injustice in regulation, in measurement, in weight, or#Or “and” volume. 36You#Plural must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin; I am Yahweh your#Plural God who brought you#Plural out from the land of Egypt.
37“ ‘Thus you#Plural shall keep all my statutes and all my regulations, and you#Plural shall do them; I am Yahweh.’ ”
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Leviticus 19
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Moral and Ceremonial Laws
1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2#Ex 19:6; Lev 11:44–45Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them: You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.
3#Ex 20:12; 20:8; 16:29Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you will keep My Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
4#Lev 26:1; Ex 20:23; 34:17Do not turn to idols, nor make for yourselves cast metal gods: I am the Lord your God.
5#Lev 1:3; 7:16When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you might be accepted. 6It shall be eaten the same day you offer it or on the next day, and if any remains until the third day, it shall be burned in the fire. 7If it is eaten at all on the third day, then it is contaminated. It shall not be accepted. 8Therefore everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has defiled what is holy of the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from among his people.
9#Lev 23:22; 23:29When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap up to the edge of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. 10You shall not glean bare your vineyard, nor shall you gather every fallen grape of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the Lord your God.
11#Ex 20:15; Eph 4:25You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.
12#Ex 20:7; Lev 18:21; 6:3You shall not swear falsely by My name, and so defile the name of your God: I am the Lord.
13#Jas 5:4; Dt 24:14–15You shall not defraud your neighbor or rob him. The wages of him who is hired shall not stay with you all night until the morning.
14#Dt 27:18; Lev 19:32You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.
15#Dt 1:17; Ex 23:2–3; Dt 16:19You shall do no unrighteousness in a court. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor honor the person who is great, but in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.
16#Ex 23:1; 23:7; Ps 15:3You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, nor shall you stand by while the life of your neighbor is in danger: I am the Lord.
17#Lk 17:3; 1Jn 2:9You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely reason honestly with your neighbor, and not suffer sin because of him.
18#Ro 12:19; 13:9; Gal 5:14You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
19#Dt 22:9–11You shall keep My statutes.
You shall not let your livestock breed with a different kind.
You shall not sow your field with mixed seed, nor shall your garment be mixed from two types of fabric.
20#Dt 22:23–24Whoever lies with a slave woman who is betrothed to another man and not yet ransomed or given freedom, compensation will be made. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free. 21He shall bring his guilt offering to the Lord at the entrance of the tent of meeting, a ram for a guilt offering. 22The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the Lord for his sin which he has done, and he will be forgiven for the sin that he has committed.
23#Lev 12:3; 22:27When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, then you shall count the fruit as forbidden.#Or uncircumcised. Three years it shall be forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten. 24#Dt 18:4; Pr 3:9But in the fourth year all the fruit shall be holy and an offering of praise to the Lord. 25And in the fifth year you shall eat of the fruit that it may yield an increase to you: I am the Lord your God.
26#Dt 12:23; 2Ki 17:17You shall not eat anything with the blood in it, nor shall you practice divination or fortune-telling.
27#Lev 21:5; Isa 15:2You shall not round the corners of the hair on your head, nor shall you mar the edges of your beard.
28#Dt 14:1; Lev 21:5You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the Lord.
29Do not prostitute your daughter and cause her to be defiled, lest the land fall into whoredom and become full of wickedness.
30#Lev 19:3; 26:2You shall keep My Sabbaths and revere My sanctuary: I am the Lord.
31#Isa 8:19; Lev 20:27; 1Sa 28:3Do not turn to spirits through mediums or necromancers. Do not seek after them to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.
32#Lev 19:14; La 5:12You shall rise up before a gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and fear your God: I am the Lord.
33#Ex 22:21; 23:9When a foreigner sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. 34#Lev 19:18; Dt 10:19The foreigner who dwells with you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
35#Dt 25:13; 25:15You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment regarding measures in length, weight, or quantity. 36#Ex 20:2; Pr 11:1You shall have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah,#A dry measure of about 3/5 of a bushel, or 22 liters. and an honest hin:#A liquid measure of about 1 gallon, or 3.8 liters. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
37#Lev 18:4–5Therefore you shall observe all My statutes and all My judgments and do them: I am the Lord.
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