Leviticus 19

1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

2 “Speak to all the assembly of the people of Israel and say to them, 'You must be holy, for I Yahweh your God am holy.

Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them, You shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.

3 Everyone must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

You shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

4 Do not turn to worthless idols, nor make for yourselves gods out of metal. I am Yahweh your God.

Turn you not to idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.

5 When you offer a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to Yahweh, you must offer it that you may be accepted.

And if you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, you shall offer it at your own will.

6 It must be eaten the same day you offer it, or on the next day. If anything remains until the third day, it must be burned up with fire.

It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, and on the morrow: and if any remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire.

7 If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is unclean meat; it must not be accepted,

And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted.

8 and everyone who eats it must carry his own guilt because he has defiled what is holy to Yahweh, and that person must be cut off from his people.

Therefore every one that eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

9 When you reap the harvest of your land, you must not completely reap the corners of your field, neither will you gather all the produce of your harvest.

And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.

10 You must not gather every grape from your vineyard, nor gather the grapes that have fallen on the ground in your vineyard. You must leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.

And you shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather every grape of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.

11 Do not steal. Do not lie. Do not deceive each other.

You shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

12 Do not swear by my name falsely and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

And you shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

13 Do not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant must not stay with you all night until the morning.

You shall not defraud your neighbor, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with you all night until the morning.

14 Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind. Instead, you must fear your God. I am Yahweh.

You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but shall fear your God: I am the LORD.

15 Do not cause judgment to be false. You must not show favoritism to someone because he is poor, and you must not show favoritism to someone because he is important. Instead, judge your neighbor righteously.

You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: you shall not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

16 Do not walk around spreading slander among your people, but seek to protect your neighbor's life. I am Yahweh.

You shall not go up and down as a talebearer among your people: neither shall you stand against the blood of your neighbor; I am the LORD.

17 Do not hate your brother in your heart. You must honestly rebuke your neighbor so as not to share in sin because of him.

You shall not hate your brother in your heart: you shall in any wise rebuke your neighbor, and not suffer sin on him.

18 Do not take vengeance or hold any grudge against any of your people, but instead love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

You shall not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.

19 You must keep my commands. Do not try to breed your animals with different kinds of other animals. Do not mix two different kinds of seeds when planting your field. Do not wear clothing made of two kinds of material mixed together.

You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle engender with a diverse kind: you shall not sow your field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woolen come on you.

20 Whoever sleeps with a slave girl who is promised to a husband, but who has not been ransomed or given her freedom, they must be punished. They must not be put to death because she was not free.

And whoever lies carnally with a woman, that is a female slave, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

21 A man must bring his guilt offering to Yahweh to the entrance to the tent of meeting—a ram as a guilt offering.

And he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering.

22 Then the priest will make atonement for him with the ram for the guilt offering before Yahweh, for the sin that he has committed. Then the sin which he has committed will be forgiven.

And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he has done: and the sin which he has done shall be forgiven him.

23 When you come into the land and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you must regard the fruit they produce as forbidden to be eaten. The fruit must be forbidden to you for three years. It must not be eaten.

And when you shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then you shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised to you: it shall not be eaten of.

24 But in the fourth year all the fruit will be holy, an offering of praise to Yahweh.

But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD with.

25 In the fifth you may eat the fruit, having waited so that the trees might produce more. I am Yahweh your God.

And in the fifth year shall you eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield to you the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God.

26 Do not eat any meat with blood still in it. Do not consult spirits about the future, and do not seek to control others by supernatural powers.

You shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall you use enchantment, nor observe times.

27 You will not round off the corners of the hair on the sides of your head or shave off the edge of your beard.

You shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shall you mar the corners of your beard.

28 Do not cut your body for the dead or put tattoo marks on your body. I am Yahweh.

You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks on you: I am the LORD.

29 Do not disgrace your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the nation will fall to prostitution and the land will become full of wickedness.

Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.

30 You must keep my Sabbaths and honor the sanctuary of my tabernacle. I am Yahweh.

You shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

31 Do not turn to those who talk with the dead or with spirits. Do not seek them out, or they will defile you. I am Yahweh your God.

Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.

32 You must rise before the gray-headed person and honor the presence of an old man. You must fear your God. I am Yahweh.

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

33 If a foreigner lives among you in your land, you must not do him any wrong.

And if a stranger sojourn with you in your land, you shall not vex him.

34 The foreigner who lives with you must be to you like the native-born Israelite who lives among you, and you must love him as yourself, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

But the stranger that dwells with you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

35 Do not use false measures when measuring length, weight, or quantity.

You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in length, in weight, or in measure.

36 You must use just scales, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall you have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

37 You must obey all my decrees and all my laws, and do them. I am Yahweh.'”

Therefore shall you observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.