Leviticus 19

1 Then the LORD said to Moses,

And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying,

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

Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy; for I the Eternal 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.

Ye shall fear, every man, his mother and his father, and my sabbaths shall ye keep: I am the Lord your God.

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

Ye shall not turn unto the idols, and molten gods shall ye not make to 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 if ye offer a sacrifice of peace-offering unto the Lord, ye shall offer it so that it may be favorably received from you.

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.

On the same day ye offer it shall it be eaten, and on the morrow: and whatever is left until the third day, shall be burnt with fire.

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

And if the intention was that it should be eaten on the third day, it is an abomination, it shall not be favorably received.

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 whoever eateth it shall bear his iniquity; because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the Lord: and that soul shall be cut off from among 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 ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather up the gleanings of thy harvest.

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 thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, and the single grapes that drop in thy vineyard shalt thou not gather up; for the poor and the stranger shalt thou leave them: I am the Lord your God.

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

Ye shall not steal; neither shall ye deny [another's property in your hands], nor lie one to another.

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

And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, and thou shalt not thus profane the name of thy 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.

Thou shalt not withhold any thing from thy neighbor, nor rob him: there shall not abide with thee the wages of him that is hired, through the night until 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.

Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling-block before the blind; but thou shalt be afraid of thy God: 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.

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment; thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the great; in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

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

Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people; thou shalt not stand [idly] by the blood of thy neighbor: 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.

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: thou shalt indeed rebuke thy neighbor, and not bear sin on account of him.

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

Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: 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.

My statutes shall ye keep; thy cattle shalt thou not let gender with a diverse kind; thy field shalt thou not sow with mingled seeds; and a garment of mingled kinds, of linen and woollen, shall not come upon thee.

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.

And if a man lie carnally with a woman, that is a bond-maid, betrothed to a man, but who hath neither been redeemed, nor hath her freedom been given her: there shall a scourging be decreed; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

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

And he shall bring his trespass-offering unto the Lord, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: a ram for a trespass-offering.

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 shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering before the Lord for his sin which he hath done; and he shall be forgiven for his sin which he hath committed.

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 ye come into the land, and plant any kind of tree bearing edible fruit, then shall ye count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you, it shall not be eaten.

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

But in the fourth year shall all its fruit be holy for praise-giving unto 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.

And in the fifth year shall ye eat of its fruit, in order that it may increase unto you its productiveness: I am the Lord your God.

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

Ye shall not eat upon the blood; nor shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

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

Ye shall not cut round the corners [of the hair] of your head, neither shalt thou destroy the corners of thy beard.

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

And for the dead shall ye not make any incision in your flesh; and any etched-in writing shall you not fix on yourselves: 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 profane thy daughter, to cause her to be a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of incest.

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

My sabbaths shall ye keep, and my sanctuary shall ye reverence: 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.

Turn not unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards; seek [them] not, to be defiled by 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.

Before the hoary head shalt thou rise up, and honor the face of the old man; and thou shalt be afraid of thy God: I am the Lord.

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

And if a stranger sojourn with thee, in your land, ye shall not vex 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.

As one born in the land among you, shall be unto you the stranger that sojourneth with you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

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

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.

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.

Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the Lord your God, who have brought you forth out of the land of Egypt.

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

Ye shall therefore observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them: I am the Lord.