Leviticus 19

1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And the Lord said to Moses,

2 Speak to the congregation of the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, You shall be holy; for 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 Let every one of you reverence his father and his mother; and you shall 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 You shall not follow idols, and you shall not make to 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 And if you will sacrifice a peace-offering to the Lord, you shall offer it acceptable from yourselves.

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

6 In what day soever you 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.

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 And if it should be at all eaten on the third day, it is unfit for sacrifice: it shall 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 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 amongst their 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 And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not complete the reaping of your field with exactness, and you shall not gather that which falls from your reaping.

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 And you shall not go over the gathering of your vineyard, neither shall you gather the remaining grapes of your vineyard: you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger: 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 shall not steal, you shall not lie, neither shall one bear false witness as an informer against his neighbour.

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

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

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

13 You shall not injure your neighbour, neither do you rob [him], neither shall the wages of your hireling remain with you until the morning.

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 shall not revile the deaf, neither shall you put a stumbling block in the way of the blind; and you shall fear the Lord your God: I am the Lord your God.

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 shall not act unjustly in judgement: you shall not accept the person of the poor, nor admire the person of the mighty; with justice shall you judge your neighbour.

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 shall not walk deceitfully amongst your people; you shall not rise up against the blood of your neighbour: I am the Lord your God.

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 shall not hate your brother in your heart: you shall in any wise rebuke your neighbour, so you shall not bear sin on his account.

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 And your hand shall not avenge you; and you shall not be angry with the children of your people; and you shall love your neighbour 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 shall observe my law: you shall not let your cattle gender with one of a different kind, and you shall not sow your vineyard with diverse seed; and you shall not put upon yourself a mingled garment woven of two [materials].

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 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.

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

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 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.

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 And whenever you shall enter into the land which the Lord your God gives you, and shall plant any fruit tree, then shall you purge away its uncleanness; its fruit shall be three years uncleansed to you, it shall 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 And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, a subject of praise to the Lord.

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

25 And in the fifth year you shall eat the fruit, its produce is an increase to you. 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 Eat not on the mountains, nor shall you employ auguries, nor divine by inspection of birds.

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

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

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

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

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

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

31 You 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 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 shall rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and shall fear your God: I am the Lord your God.

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

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

34 The stranger that comes to you shall be amongst you as the native, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers 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 shall not act unrighteously in judgement, in measures and weights and scales.

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

36 There shall be amongst 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.

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

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