Leviticus 19
1AGAIN the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2Speak to the congregation of the children of Israel; and thou shalt say unto them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.
3Let every one reverence his father and his mother. And you shall keep My sabbaths. I am the Lord your God;
4you shall not follow idols, nor make for yourselves molten gods. I the Lord am your God;
5therefore when you offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord, you shall offer it in an acceptable manner.
6On the day you offer such a sacrifice it shall be eaten; or on the next day; and if any of it be left till the third day, it shall be burned with fire.
7And if it be eaten on the third day, it is as if it had not been offered. It will not be accepted.
8He who eateth it will contract guilt, because he hath profaned the holy things of the Lord. The persons therefore who eat it shall be cut off from among their people.
9And when you gather in the harvest of your land, you shall not make a complete ingathering of the harvest of your field, nor gather up the gleanings of thy harvest;
10nor shalt thou go over thy vineyard a second time, nor gather the straggling clusters of thy vineyard. Thou shalt leave them for the poor, and for the stranger. I am the Lord your God;
11you shall not steal; you shall not lie; nor shall anyone accuse his brother for trifles,
12you shall not swear by My name to a falsehood; nor profane the holy name of your God.
13I am the Lord your God, thou shalt not injure thy neighbour, nor commit rapine; nor shall the wages of a hireling remain with thee till the morning.
14Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor lay a stumbling block before the blind, but shalt fear the Lord thy God.
15I am the Lord your God; you shall not do an unjust thing in the execution of justice: thou shalt not respect the face of the poor, nor revere the face of the mighty. With righteousness thou shalt judge thy neighbour.
16Thou shalt not go about with deceit among thy nation, nor set thyself against the blood of thy neighbour.
17I am the Lord your God; thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart. With rebuke thou shalt correct thy neighbour, and not contract guilt on his account;
18but let not thy hand take vengeance. Thou shalt not bear a grudge against the children of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. I am the Lord;
19you shall keep My law. Thou shalt not let the cattle gender with one of another kind, nor plant thy vineyard with different sorts of seed; nor put on unscoured, a woven garment made of flax and wool.
20If any man lie carnally with a woman, and she be a servant betrothed to a man, and hath not been redeemed, nor had her freedom granted her, they shall be chastised, but shall not be put to death, because she was not set free.
21And for his trespass against the Lord, he shall bring to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, the ram of a trespass offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the Lord for the sin which he hath committed; and the sin which he hath committed shall be forgiven him.
23Now when you come into the land which the Lord your God giveth you, you may plant all sorts of trees for food; but you must purge away their impurity.
24The fruit thereof shall be three years unclean to you, and shall not be eaten: and in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be hallowed, to praise the Lord;
25and in the fifth year, you may eat the fruit. The products thereof will be an additional supply to you. I am the Lord your God;
26you must not eat on the mountains, nor practise divination, nor augury by birds.
27You shall not make a rounding of the hair of your head, nor disfigure the appearance of your beard.
28You shall not make gashes in your body for the dead, nor any fixed marks on you. I am the Lord your God;
29thou shalt not prostitute thy daughter to cause her to commit whoredom, that the country may not fall into whoredom; and that the land may not be filled with iniquity.
30You shall keep My sabbaths, and reverence My holy things. I am the Lord your God:
31you shall not go after trance-speakers, nor attach yourselves to sorcerers to be polluted by them. I am the Lord your God:
32you shall rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of an elder, and fear thy God. I am the Lord your God;
33if any stranger come among you in your land, you shall not afflict him.
34The stranger who cometh to you, shall be as one born among you; and thou shalt love him as thyself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God;
35you shall not do injustice in the exercise of judgment, nor in measures, nor in weights, nor in balances.
36You shall have among you just balances, just weights and a just measure. I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
37therefore you shall keep all My law and all My statutes and do them. I am the Lord your God.