CHAPTER 19
“Speak
to
the entire
congregation
of the Israelites
and tell
them:
‘Be
holy
because
I,
the LORD
your God,
am holy.
Each
of you must respect
his mother
and father,
and you must observe
My Sabbaths.
I
am the LORD
your God.
It shall be eaten
on the day
you sacrifice it,
or on the next day;
but what remains
on the third
day
must be burned up.
Whoever eats
it will bear
his iniquity,
for
he has profaned
what is holy
to the LORD.
That
person
must be cut off
from his people.
When you reap
the harvest
of your land,
you are not
to reap
to the very edges
of your field
or gather
the gleanings
of your harvest.
You must not
strip your vineyard
bare
or gather
its
fallen grapes.
Leave
them
for the poor
and the sojourner.
I
am the LORD
your God.
You must not
defraud
your neighbor
or
rob him.
You
must not
withhold
until
morning
the wages
due a hired hand.
You must not
curse
the deaf
or place
a stumbling block
before
the blind,
but you are to fear
your God.
I
am the LORD.
“You must not
pervert
justice;
you must not
show partiality
to the poor
or
favoritism
to the rich;
you are to judge
your neighbor
fairly.
You must not
go
about spreading slander
among your people.
You must not
endanger
the life
of your neighbor.
I
am the LORD.
You must not
harbor hatred
against your brother
in your heart.
Directly
rebuke
your neighbor,
so that you will not
incur
guilt
on account of him.
Do not
seek revenge
or bear a grudge
against any
of your people,
but love
your neighbor
as yourself.
I
am the LORD.
You are to keep
My statutes.
You shall not
crossbreed
two different kinds
of livestock;
you shall not sow
your fields
with two kinds
of seed;
and you shall not wear
clothing
made of two kinds
of material.
If
a man
has sexual relations with
a slave girl
promised
to another man
but who has not
been redeemed
or
given
her freedom,
there must be
due punishment.
But they are not
to be put to death,
because
she had not
been freed.
The man, however, must bring
a ram
to
the entrance
of the tent
of Meeting
as his guilt offering
to the LORD.
The priest
shall make atonement
on his behalf
before
the LORD
with the ram
of the guilt offering
for
the sin
he has committed,
and he will be forgiven
the sin
he has committed.
When
you enter
the land
and plant
any
kind of tree
for food,
you shall regard
the fruit
as forbidden.
For three
years
it will be
forbidden
to you
and must not
be eaten.
But in the fifth
year
you may eat
its fruit;
thus your
harvest
will be increased.
I
am the LORD
your God.
You must not
make any cuts
in your bodies
for the dead
or put
tattoo
marks on yourselves.
I
am the LORD.
You must not
defile
your daughter
by making her a prostitute,
or
the land
will be prostituted
and filled
with depravity.
“You must not
turn
to
mediums
or
spiritists;
do not seek them out,
or you will be defiled
by them.
I
am the LORD
your God.
You are to rise
in the presence
of the elderly,
honor
the aged,
and fear
your God.
I
am the LORD.
You must treat
the foreigner
living
among you
as native-born
and love
him
as yourself,
for
you were
foreigners
in the land
of Egypt.
I
am the LORD
your God.
You shall maintain
honest
scales
and
weights,
an honest
ephah,
and an honest
hin.
I
am the LORD
your God,
who
brought
you
out of the land
of Egypt.