Leviticus 19

1 And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

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 entire assembly of the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: 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 each one fear his father and his mother. Observe 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 be willing to convert to idols, neither should you make molten 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;

If you immolate a victim of peace offerings to the Lord, so that he may be appeased,

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,

you shall eat it on the same day as when it was immolated, and the next day. Then whatever will remain on the third day you shall burn with fire.

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

If anyone, after two days, will have eaten from it, he shall be profane and guilty of impiety.

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 he shall bear his iniquity, for he has polluted what is holy to the Lord. And that soul shall perish 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 will have harvested the grain fields of your land, you shall not cut it down to the surface of the land, even to the ground, nor shall you gather the remaining ears of 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.

Neither shall you gather the clusters or individual grapes which fall down in your vineyard, but you shall leave them for paupers and travelers to take. I am the Lord your God.

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

You shall not steal. You shall not lie. Neither shall anyone deceive his neighbor.

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

You shall not commit perjury in my name, nor shall you pollute 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 shall not slander your neighbor, nor shall you oppress him by violence. The wages of a hired hand, you shall not delay with you until tomorrow.

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 shall not speak evil of the deaf, nor shall you place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear the Lord your God, for 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 shall not do what is unjust, nor shall you judge unjustly. You shall not consider the reputation of the poor, nor shall you honor the countenance of the powerful. Judge your neighbor justly.

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

You shall not be a detractor, nor a whisperer, among the people. You shall not stand against the blood 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 shall not hate your brother in your heart, but reprove him openly, lest you have sin over 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, neither should you be mindful of the injury of your fellow citizens. You shall love your friend 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.

Observe my laws. You shall not cause your cattle to breed with other kinds of animals. You shall not sow your field with diverse seeds. You shall not be clothed with a garment which has been woven from two things.

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 will have slept in sexual intercourse with a woman, who is a servant and who is also able to be married, and yet he has not redeemed her with a price, nor paid to set her free, they both shall be beaten, but they shall not die, for 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,

But, for his offense, he shall offer a ram to the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.

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 shall pray for him, and for his sin, before the Lord, and he shall win his favor again for him, and the sin shall be forgiven.

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 will have entered into the land, and will have planted in it fruit trees, you shall take away their first-fruits; the fruit that germinates shall be unclean to you, neither shall you eat from these.

24 and in the fourth year all its fruit is holy—praises for YHWH.

But in the fourth year, all their fruit shall be sanctified for the praise of the Lord.

25 And in the fifth year you eat its fruit—to add to you its increase; I [am] your God YHWH.

And in the fifth year you shall eat the produce, gathering the fruits which are brought forth. I am the Lord your God.

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

You shall not eat with blood. You shall not practice divination, nor the observation of dreams.

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

And you shall not cut the hair of your head circularly, nor shave 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 shall not cut your flesh for the dead, and you shall not make other figures or marks on yourself. 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 prostitute your daughter, lest the land be contaminated and filled with crimes.

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

Observe my Sabbaths, and be apprehensive toward 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.

Do not turn aside to astrologers, nor consult with soothsayers, so as to be polluted 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.

Rise up in the presence of a gray-haired head, and honor the reputation of an elder, and fear the Lord your God. I am the Lord.

33 And when a sojourner sojourns with you in your land, you do not oppress him;

If a newcomer lives in your land and abides among you, do not reproach 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.

but let him be among you like one native born. And you shall love him as yourselves. For you were also newcomers 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 be willing to accomplish iniquity in judgment, in lengths, in weights, in quantities.

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;

Let the scales be just and the weights equal, let the dry measure be just and the liquid measure be equal. I am the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of Egypt.

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

Keep all my precepts, and all my judgments, and accomplish them. I am the Lord.