Leviticus 19

1 Then the LORD said to Moses,

And the Lord said to Moses,

2 “Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.

Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.

3 Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

4 Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.

Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.

5 When you sacrifice a peace offering to the LORD, you shall offer it for your acceptance.

And when you give a peace offering to the Lord, do it in the way which is pleasing to the Lord.

6 It shall be eaten on the day you sacrifice it, or on the next day; but what remains on the third day must be burned up.

Let it be used for food on the same day on which it is offered, or on the day after; and whatever is over on the third day is to be burned with fire.

7 If any of it is eaten on the third day, it is tainted and will not be accepted.

If any of it is used for food on the third day, it is a disgusting thing and will not be pleasing to the Lord.

8 Whoever eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person must be cut off from his people.

And as for anyone who takes it for food, his sin will be on him, for he has put shame on the holy thing of the Lord: he will be cut off from his people.

9 When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.

And when you get in the grain from your land, do not let all the grain be cut from the edges of the field, or take up what has been dropped on the earth after the getting in of the grain.

10 You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.

And do not take all the grapes from your vine-garden, or the fruit dropped on the earth; let the poor man, and the man from another country, have these: I am the Lord your God.

11 You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.

Do not take anyone's property or be false in act or word to another.

12 You must not swear falsely by My name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

And do not take an oath in my name falsely, putting shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.

13 You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.

Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.

14 You must not curse the deaf or place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.

Do not put a curse on those who have no hearing, or put a cause of falling in the way of the blind, but keep the fear of your God before you: I am the Lord.

15 You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.

Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.

16 You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.

Do not go about saying untrue things among your people, or take away the life of your neighbour by false witness: I am the Lord.

17 You must not harbor hatred against your brother in your heart. Directly rebuke your neighbor, so that you will not incur guilt on account of him.

Let there be no hate in your heart for your brother; but you may make a protest to your neighbour, so that he may be stopped from doing evil.

18 Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

Do not make attempts to get equal with one who has done you wrong, or keep hard feelings against the children of your people, but have love for your neighbour as for yourself: I am the Lord.

19 You are to keep My statutes. You shall not crossbreed two different kinds of livestock; you shall not sow your fields with two kinds of seed; and you shall not wear clothing made of two kinds of material.

Keep my laws. Do not let your cattle have offspring by those of a different sort; do not put mixed seed into your field; do not put on a robe made of two sorts of cloth.

20 If a man lies carnally with a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. But they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.

If any man has sex relations with a servant-woman who has given her word to be married to a man, and has not been made free for a price or in any other way, the thing will be looked into; but they will not be put to death because she was not a free woman.

21 The man, however, must bring a ram to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting as his guilt offering to the LORD.

Let him take his offering for wrongdoing to the Lord, to the door of the Tent of meeting; let him give a male sheep as an offering for wrongdoing.

22 The priest shall 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 the sin he has committed.

And the priest will take away his sin before the Lord with the sheep which is offered for his wrongdoing, and he will have forgiveness for the sin which he has done.

23 When you enter the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you shall regard the fruit as forbidden. For three years it will be forbidden to you and must not be eaten.

And when you have come into the land, and have put in all sorts of fruit-trees, their fruit will be as if they had not had circumcision, and for three years their fruit may not be used for food.

24 In the fourth year all its fruit must be consecrated as a praise offering to the LORD.

And in the fourth year all the fruit will be holy as a praise-offering to the Lord.

25 But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit; thus your harvest will be increased. I am the LORD your God.

But in the fifth year you may take the fruit and the increase of it for your food: I am the Lord your God.

26 You must not eat anything with blood still in it. You must not practice divination or sorcery.

Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders.

27 You must not cut off the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.

The ends of the hair round your face and on your chin may not be cut off.

28 You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.

You may not make cuts in your flesh in respect for the dead, or have marks printed on your bodies: I am the Lord.

29 You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a loose woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame.

30 You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.

Keep my Sabbaths and have respect for my holy place: I am the Lord.

31 You must not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out, or you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.

Do not go after those who make use of spirits, or wonder-workers; do not go in their ways or become unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

32 You are to rise in the presence of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.

Get up from your seats before the white-haired, and give honour to the old, and let the fear of your God be before you: I am the Lord.

33 When a foreigner resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him.

And if a man from another country is living in your land with you, do not make life hard for him;

34 You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

Let him be to you as one of your countrymen and have love for him as for yourself; for you were living in a strange land, in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

35 You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.

Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures.

36 You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;

37 You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and follow them. I am the LORD.”

You are to keep all my rules and my decisions and do them: I am the Lord.