Leviticus 19

1 And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,

And 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 congregation of the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, You shall 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 one of you reverence his father and his mother; and you shall 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.

You shall not follow idols, and you shall not make to 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;

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

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,

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.

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

And if it should be at all eaten on the third day, it is unfit for sacrifice: it shall 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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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

You shall not steal, you shall not lie, neither shall one bear false witness as an informer against 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.

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.

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 injure your neighbor, neither do you rob [him], neither shall the wages of your hireling remain with you until 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.

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.

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

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

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: you shall in any wise rebuke your neighbor, so you shall not bear sin on his account.

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.

And your hand shall not avenge you; and you shall not be angry with the children of your people; and you shall 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 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].

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.

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.

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,

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

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 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.

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 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.

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

And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, a subject of praise to 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 fruit, its produce is an increase to you. I am the Lord your God.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

You shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuaries: 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 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.

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

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

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

The stranger that comes to you shall be among 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.

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

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

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;

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.

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

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