< Leviticus 19 >
1 And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,
Then the LORD said to Moses,
2 “Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and you have said to them: You are holy, because I, your God YHWH, [am] holy.
“Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.
3 You each fear his mother and his father, and you keep My Sabbaths; I [am] your God YHWH.
Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
4 You do not turn to the idols, and you do not make a molten god for yourselves; I [am] your God YHWH.
Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.
5 And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of peace-offerings to YHWH, you sacrifice it at your pleasure;
When you sacrifice a peace offering to the LORD, you shall offer it for your acceptance.
6 it is eaten in the day of your sacrificing [it], and on the next day, and that which is left to the third day is burned with fire,
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.
7 and if it is really eaten on the third day, it [is] an abomination, it is not pleasing,
If any of it is eaten on the third day, it is tainted and will not be accepted.
8 and he who is eating it bears his iniquity, for he has defiled the holy thing of YHWH, and that person has been cut off from his people.
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.
9 And in your reaping the harvest of your land you do not completely reap the corner of your field, and you do not gather the gleaning of your harvest,
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.
10 and you do not glean your vineyard, even the omitted part of your vineyard you do not gather, you leave them for the poor and for the sojourner; I [am] your God YHWH.
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.
11 You do not steal, nor feign, nor lie—each against his fellow.
You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.
12 And you do not swear by My Name for falsehood, or you have defiled the Name of your God; I [am] YHWH.
You must not swear falsely by My name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
13 You do not oppress your neighbor, nor take plunder; the wages of the hired worker do not remain with you until morning.
You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
14 You do not revile the deaf; and you do not put a stumbling block before the blind; and you have been afraid of your God; I [am] YHWH.
You must not curse the deaf or place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.
15 You do not do perversity in judgment; you do not lift up the face of the poor, nor honor the face of the great; you judge your fellow in righteousness.
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.
16 You do not go slandering among your people; you do not stand against the blood of your neighbor; I [am] YHWH.
You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.
17 You do not hate your brother in your heart; you certainly reprove your fellow, and do not permit sin on him.
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.
18 You do not take vengeance, nor watch the sons of your people; and you have had love for your neighbor as yourself; I [am] YHWH.
Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
19 You keep My statutes. You do not cause your livestock to mate [with] two kinds; you do not sow your field with two kinds; and a garment of two kinds, mixed material, does not go up on you.
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.
20 And when a man lies with a woman with seed [from] intercourse, and she [is] a maidservant, betrothed to a man, and not really ransomed, or freedom has not been given to her, there is an investigation; they are not put to death, for she [is] not free.
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.
21 And he has brought in his guilt-offering to YHWH, to the opening of the Tent of Meeting, a ram [for] a guilt-offering,
The man, however, must bring a ram to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting as his guilt offering to the LORD.
22 and the priest has made atonement for him with the ram of the guilt-offering before YHWH, for his sin which he has sinned, and it has been forgiven him because of his sin which he has sinned.
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.
23 And when you come into the land and have planted all [kinds] of trees [for] food, then you have reckoned its fruit as uncircumcised, it is uncircumcised to you [for] three years, it is not eaten,
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.
24 and in the fourth year all its fruit is holy—praises for YHWH.
In the fourth year all its fruit must be consecrated as a praise offering to the LORD.
25 And in the fifth year you eat its fruit—to add to you its increase; I [am] your God YHWH.
But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit; thus your harvest will be increased. I am the LORD your God.
26 You do not eat with the blood. You do not enchant, nor observe clouds.
You must not eat anything with blood still in it. You must not practice divination or sorcery.
27 You do not round the corner of your head, nor destroy the corner of your beard.
You must not cut off the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
28 And you do not put a cutting for the soul in your flesh; and a writing, a cross-mark, you do not put on yourself; I [am] YHWH.
You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.
29 You do not defile your daughter to cause her to go whoring, that the land does not go whoring, and the land has been full of wickedness.
You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.
30 You keep My Sabbaths and you revere My sanctuary; I [am] YHWH.
You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
31 You do not turn to those having familiar spirits, and you do not seek for wizards, to become unclean by them; I [am] your God YHWH.
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.
32 You rise up at the presence of grey hairs, and you have honored the presence of an old man, and have been afraid of your God; I [am] YHWH.
You are to rise in the presence of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.
33 And when a sojourner sojourns with you in your land, you do not oppress him;
When a foreigner resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him.
34 the sojourner who is sojourning with you is to you as a native among you, and you have had love for him as for yourself, for you have been sojourners in the land of Egypt; I [am] your God YHWH.
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.
35 You do not do perversity in the judgment, in the measure, in the weight, and in the liquid measure;
You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.
36 you have righteous balances, righteous weights, a righteous ephah, and a righteous hin; I [am] your God YHWH, who has brought you out from the land of Egypt;
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.
37 and you have observed all my statutes, and all my judgments, and have done them; I [am] YHWH.”
You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and follow them. I am the LORD.”