Leviticus 19
1 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
And the Lord said to Moses,
2 'Speak unto all the company of the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, Ye are holy, for holy [am] I, Jehovah, your God.
Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.
3 'Each his mother and his father ye do fear, and My sabbaths ye do keep; I [am] Jehovah your God.
Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
4 'Ye do not turn unto the idols, and a molten god ye do not make to yourselves; I [am] Jehovah your God.
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 ye sacrifice a sacrifice of peace-offerings to Jehovah, at your pleasure ye do sacrifice it;
And when you give a peace offering to the Lord, do it in the way which is pleasing to the Lord.
6 in the day of your sacrificing it is eaten, and on the morrow, and that which is left unto the third day with fire is burnt,
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 be 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 his iniquity doth bear, for the holy thing of Jehovah he hath polluted, and that person hath 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 ye do not completely reap the corner of thy field, and the gleaning of thy harvest thou dost not gather,
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 thy vineyard thou dost not glean, even the omitted part of thy vineyard thou dost not gather, to the poor and to the sojourner thou dost leave them; I [am] Jehovah your God.
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 'Ye do not steal, nor feign, nor lie one against his fellow.
Do not take anyone's property or be false in act or word to another.
12 'And ye do not swear by My name to falsehood, or thou hast polluted the name of thy God; I [am] Jehovah.
And do not take an oath in my name falsely, putting shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.
13 'Thou dost not oppress thy neighbour, nor take plunder; the wages of the hireling doth not remain with thee till 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 'Thou dost not revile the deaf; and before the blind thou dost not put a stumbling block; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; I [am] Jehovah.
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 'Ye do not do perversity in judgment; thou dost not lift up the face of the poor, nor honour the face of the great; in righteousness thou dost judge thy fellow.
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 'Thou dost not go slandering among thy people; thou dost not stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I [am] Jehovah.
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 'Thou dost not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou dost certainly reprove thy fellow, and not suffer 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 'Thou dost not take vengeance, nor watch the sons of thy people; and thou hast had love to thy neighbour as thyself; I [am] Jehovah.
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 'My statutes ye do keep: thy cattle thou dost not cause to gender [with] diverse kinds; thy field thou dost not sow with diverse kinds, and a garment of diverse kinds, shaatnez, doth not go up upon thee.
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 lieth with a woman with seed of copulation, and she a maid-servant, betrothed to a man, and not really ransomed, or freedom hath not been given to her, an investigation there is; 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 hath brought in his guilt-offering to Jehovah, unto 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 hath made atonement for him with the ram of the guilt-offering before Jehovah, for his sin which he hath sinned, and it hath been forgiven him because of his sin which he hath 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 ye come in unto the land, and have planted all [kinds] of trees [for] food, then ye have reckoned as uncircumcised its fruit, three years it is to you uncircumcised, 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 Jehovah.
And in the fourth year all the fruit will be holy as a praise-offering to the Lord.
25 And in the fifth year ye do eat its fruit — to add to you its increase; I [am] Jehovah your God.
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 'Ye do not eat with the blood; ye 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 'Ye do not round the corner of your head, nor destroy the corner of thy beard.
The ends of the hair round your face and on your chin may not be cut off.
28 'And a cutting for the soul ye do not put in your flesh; and a writing, a cross-mark, ye do not put on you; I [am] Jehovah.
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 'Thou dost not pollute thy daughter to cause her to go a-whoring, that the land go not a-whoring, and the land hath 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 'My sabbaths ye do keep, and My sanctuary ye do reverence; I [am] Jehovah.
Keep my Sabbaths and have respect for my holy place: I am the Lord.
31 'Ye do not turn unto those having familiar spirits; and unto wizards ye do not seek, for uncleanness by them; I [am] Jehovah your God.
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 'At the presence of grey hairs thou dost rise up, and thou hast honoured the presence of an old man, and hast been afraid of thy God; I [am] Jehovah.
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 sojourneth with thee in your land, thou dost 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 as a native among you is the sojourner to you who is sojourning with you, and thou hast had love to him as to thyself, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt; I [am] Jehovah your God.
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 'Ye do not do perversity in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in liquid measure;
Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures.
36 righteous balances, righteous weights, a righteous ephah, and a righteous hin ye have; I [am] Jehovah your God, who hath 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 ye have observed all my statutes, and all my judgments, and have done them; I [am] Jehovah.'
You are to keep all my rules and my decisions and do them: I am the Lord.
