Leviticus 19

1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

2 Speak to the congregation of the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Ye shall be holy; for I the Lord your God [am] holy.

“Speak to all the assembly of the people of Israel and say to them, 'You must be holy, for I Yahweh your God am holy.

3 Let every one of you reverence his father and his mother; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I [am] the Lord your God.

Everyone must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

4 Ye shall not follow idols, and ye shall not make to yourselves molten gods: I [am] the Lord your God.

Do not turn to worthless idols, nor make for yourselves gods out of metal. I am Yahweh your God.

5 And if ye will sacrifice a peace-offering to the Lord, ye shall offer it acceptable from yourselves.

When you offer a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to Yahweh, you must offer it that you may be accepted.

6 In what day soever ye shall sacrifice it, it shall be eaten; and on the following day, and if any of it should be left till the third day, it shall be thoroughly burnt with fire.

It must be eaten the same day you offer it, or on the next day. If anything remains until the third day, it must be burned up with fire.

7 And if it should be at all eaten on the third day, it is unfit for sacrifice: it shall not be accepted.

If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is unclean meat; it must not be accepted,

8 And he that eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy things of the Lord; and the souls that eat it shall be destroyed from among their people.

and everyone who eats it must carry his own guilt because he has defiled what is holy to Yahweh, and that person must be cut off from his people.

9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, ye shall not complete the reaping of your field with exactness, and thou shalt not gather that which falls from thy reaping.

When you reap the harvest of your land, you must not completely reap the corners of your field, neither will you gather all the produce of your harvest.

10 And thou shalt not go over the gathering of thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather the remaining grapes of thy vineyard: thou shalt leave them for the poor and the stranger: I am the Lord your God.

You must not gather every grape from your vineyard, nor gather the grapes that have fallen on the ground in your vineyard. You must leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.

11 Ye shall not steal, ye shall not lie, neither shall one bear false witness as an informer against his neighbour.

Do not steal. Do not lie. Do not deceive each other.

12 And ye shall not swear unjustly by my name, and ye shall not profane the holy name of your God: I am the Lord your God.

Do not swear by my name falsely and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

13 Thou shalt not injure thy neighbour, neither do thou rob [him], neither shall the wages of thy hireling remain with thee until the morning.

Do not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant must not stay with you all night until the morning.

14 Thou shalt not revile the deaf, neither shalt thou put a stumbling-block in the way of the blind; and thou shalt fear the Lord thy God: I am the Lord your God.

Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind. Instead, you must fear your God. I am Yahweh.

15 Thou shalt not act unjustly in judgment: thou shalt not accept the person of the poor, nor admire the person of the mighty; with justice shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

Do not cause judgment to be false. You must not show favoritism to someone because he is poor, and you must not show favoritism to someone because he is important. Instead, judge your neighbor righteously.

16 Thou shalt not walk deceitfully among thy people; thou shalt not rise up against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the Lord your God.

Do not walk around spreading slander among your people, but seek to protect your neighbor's life. I am Yahweh.

17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, so thou shalt not bear sin on his account.

Do not hate your brother in your heart. You must honestly rebuke your neighbor so as not to share in sin because of him.

18 And thy hand shall not avenge thee; and thou shalt not be angry with the children of thy people; and thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; I am the Lord.

Do not take vengeance or hold any grudge against any of your people, but instead love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

19 Ye shall observe my law: thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with one of a different kind, and thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with diverse seed; and thou shalt not put upon thyself a mingled garment woven of two [materials].

You must keep my commands. Do not try to breed your animals with different kinds of other animals. Do not mix two different kinds of seeds when planting your field. Do not wear clothing made of two kinds of material mixed together.

20 And if any one lie carnally with a woman, and she should be a home-servant kept for a man, and she has not been ransomed, [and] her freedom has not been given to her, they shall be visited [with punishment]; but they shall not die, because she was not set at liberty.

Whoever sleeps with a slave girl who is promised to a husband, but who has not been ransomed or given her freedom, they must be punished. They must not be put to death because she was not free.

21 And he shall bring for his trespass to the Lord to the door of the tabernacle of witness, a ram for a trespass-offering.

A man must bring his guilt offering to Yahweh to the entrance to the tent of meeting—a ram as a guilt offering.

22 And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering, before the Lord, for the sin which he sinned; and the sin which he sinned shall be forgiven him.

Then the priest will make atonement for him with the ram for the guilt offering before Yahweh, for the sin that he has committed. Then the sin which he has committed will be forgiven.

23 And whenever ye shall enter into the land which the Lord your God gives you, and shall plant any fruit-tree, then shall ye purge away its uncleanness; its fruit shall be three years uncleansed to you, it shall not be eaten.

When you come into the land and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you must regard the fruit they produce as forbidden to be eaten. The fruit must be forbidden to you for three years. It must not be eaten.

24 And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, a subject of praise to the Lord.

But in the fourth year all the fruit will be holy, an offering of praise to Yahweh.

25 And in the fifth year ye shall eat the fruit, its produce is an increase to you. I am the Lord your God.

In the fifth you may eat the fruit, having waited so that the trees might produce more. I am Yahweh your God.

26 Eat not on the mountains, nor shall ye employ auguries, nor divine by inspection of birds.

Do not eat any meat with blood still in it. Do not consult spirits about the future, and do not seek to control others by supernatural powers.

27 Ye shall not make a round cutting of the hair of your head, nor disfigure your beard.

You will not round off the corners of the hair on the sides of your head or shave off the edge of your beard.

28 And ye shall not make cuttings in your body for a [dead] body, and ye shall not inscribe on yourselves any marks. I am the Lord your God.

Do not cut your body for the dead or put tattoo marks on your body. I am Yahweh.

29 Thou shalt not profane thy daughter to prostitute her; so the land shall not go a whoring, and the land be filled with iniquity.

Do not disgrace your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the nation will fall to prostitution and the land will become full of wickedness.

30 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuaries: I am the Lord.

You must keep my Sabbaths and honor the sanctuary of my tabernacle. I am Yahweh.

31 Ye shall not attend to those who have in them divining spirits, nor attach yourselves to enchanters, to pollute yourselves with them: I am the Lord your God.

Do not turn to those who talk with the dead or with spirits. Do not seek them out, or they will defile you. I am Yahweh your God.

32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and shalt fear thy God: I am the Lord your God.

You must rise before the gray-headed person and honor the presence of an old man. You must fear your God. I am Yahweh.

33 And if there should come to you a stranger in your land, ye shall not afflict him.

If a foreigner lives among you in your land, you must not do him any wrong.

34 The stranger that comes to you shall be among you as the native, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

The foreigner who lives with you must be to you like the native-born Israelite who lives among you, and you must love him as yourself, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

35 Ye shall not act unrighteously in judgment, in measures and weights and scales.

Do not use false measures when measuring length, weight, or quantity.

36 There shall be among you just balances and just weights and just liquid measure. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

You must use just scales, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

37 And ye shall keep all my law and all my ordinances, and ye shall do them: I am the Lord your God.

You must obey all my decrees and all my laws, and do them. I am Yahweh.'”