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Leviticus 19
Leviticus 19 ... New
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Various Laws
1
The LORD said to Moses,
2 "Speak to the
entire assembly of
Israel and say to them:
'Be holy because I, the
LORD your God, am holy.
3
" 'Each of you must
respect his mother and
father, and you must
observe my Sabbaths. I
am the LORD your God.
4
" 'Do not turn to idols
or make gods of cast
metal for yourselves. I
am the LORD your God.
5
" 'When you sacrifice a
fellowship offering to
the LORD, sacrifice it
in such a way that it
will be accepted on your
behalf.
6 It shall be
eaten on the day you
sacrifice it or on the
next day; anything left
over until the third day
must be burned up.
7 If any of it is
eaten on the third day,
it is impure and will
not be accepted.
8 Whoever eats it
will be held responsible
because he has
desecrated what is holy
to the LORD; that person
must be cut off from his
people.
9
" 'When you reap the
harvest of your land, do
not reap to the very
edges of your field or
gather the gleanings of
your harvest.
10 Do not go over
your vineyard a second
time or pick up the
grapes that have fallen.
Leave them for the poor
and the alien. I am the
LORD your God.
11
" 'Do not steal.
" 'Do not lie.
" 'Do not deceive
one another.
12
" 'Do not swear falsely
by my name and so
profane the name of your
God. I am the LORD.
13
" 'Do not defraud your
neighbor or rob him.
" 'Do not hold
back the wages of a
hired man overnight.
14
" 'Do not curse the deaf
or put a stumbling block
in front of the blind,
but fear your God. I am
the LORD.
15
" 'Do not pervert
justice; do not show
partiality to the poor
or favoritism to the
great, but judge your
neighbor fairly.
16
" 'Do not go about
spreading slander among
your people.
" 'Do not do
anything that endangers
your neighbor's life. I
am the LORD.
17
" 'Do not hate your
brother in your heart.
Rebuke your neighbor
frankly so you will not
share in his guilt.
18
" 'Do not seek revenge
or bear a grudge against
one of your people, but
love your neighbor as
yourself. I am the LORD.
19
" 'Keep my decrees.
" 'Do not mate
different kinds of
animals.
" 'Do not plant
your field with two
kinds of seed.
" 'Do not wear
clothing woven of two
kinds of material.
20
" 'If a man sleeps with
a woman who is a slave
girl promised to another
man but who has not been
ransomed or given her
freedom, there must be
due punishment. Yet they
are not to be put to
death, because she had
not been freed.
21 The man,
however, must bring a
ram to the entrance to
the Tent of Meeting for
a guilt offering to the
LORD.
22 With the ram
of the guilt offering
the priest is to make
atonement for him before
the LORD for the sin he
has committed, and his
sin will be forgiven.
23
" 'When you enter the
land and plant any kind
of fruit tree, regard
its fruit as forbidden.
For three years you are
to consider it forbidden
; it must not be eaten.
24 In the fourth
year all its fruit will
be holy, an offering of
praise to the LORD.
25 But in the
fifth year you may eat
its fruit. In this way
your harvest will be
increased. I am the LORD
your God.
26
" 'Do not eat any meat
with the blood still in
it.
" 'Do not practice
divination or sorcery.
27
" 'Do not cut the hair
at the sides of your
head or clip off the
edges of your beard.
28
" 'Do not cut your
bodies for the dead or
put tattoo marks on
yourselves. I am the
LORD.
29
" 'Do not degrade your
daughter by making her a
prostitute, or the land
will turn to
prostitution and be
filled with wickedness.
30
" 'Observe my Sabbaths
and have reverence for
my sanctuary. I am the
LORD.
31
" 'Do not turn to
mediums or seek out
spiritists, for you will
be defiled by them. I am
the LORD your God.
32
" 'Rise in the presence
of the aged, show
respect for the elderly
and revere your God. I
am the LORD.
33
" 'When an alien lives
with you in your land,
do not mistreat him.
34 The alien
living with you must be
treated as one of your
native-born. Love him as
yourself, for you were
aliens in Egypt. I am
the LORD your God.
35
" 'Do not use dishonest
standards when measuring
length, weight or
quantity.
36 Use honest
scales and honest
weights, an honest ephah
and an honest hin. I am
the LORD your God, who
brought you out of
Egypt.
37
" 'Keep all my decrees
and all my laws and
follow them. I am the
LORD.' "
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