Leviticus 19

1 And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,

And 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.

Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for 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.

Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and 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 go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.

5 And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of peace-offerings to YHWH, you sacrifice it at your pleasure;

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

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,

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 is really eaten on the third day, it [is] an abomination, it is not pleasing,

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 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.

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 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,

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 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.

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 do not steal, nor feign, nor lie—each against his fellow.

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

12 And you do not swear by My Name for falsehood, or you have defiled the Name of your God; I [am] YHWH.

And do not take an oath in my name falsely, putting shame on 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 do not go slandering among your people; you do not stand against the blood of your neighbor; I [am] YHWH.

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 do not hate your brother in your heart; you certainly reprove your fellow, and do not permit sin on 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 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 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 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.

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 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 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 has brought in his guilt-offering to YHWH, to the opening of the Tent of Meeting, a ram [for] a guilt-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 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.

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 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,

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 is holy—praises for YHWH.

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 eat its fruit—to add to you its increase; I [am] your God YHWH.

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 do not eat with the blood. You do not enchant, nor observe clouds.

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 do not round the corner of your head, nor destroy the corner of your beard.

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

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 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 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.

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 keep My Sabbaths and you revere My sanctuary; I [am] YHWH.

Keep my Sabbaths and have respect for my holy place: 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.

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 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.

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 when a sojourner sojourns with you in your land, you do 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 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.

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 do not do perversity in the judgment, in the measure, in the weight, and in the liquid measure;

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

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;

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 have observed all my statutes, and all my judgments, and have done them; I [am] YHWH.”

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