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Leviticus 19

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19 ‎(1) the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ‎(2) Speak to the whole Israelite community and say to them: You shall be holy, for I, your God the LORD, am holy. ‎(3) You shall each revere your mother and your father, and keep My sabbaths: I the LORD am your God. ‎(4) Do not turn to idols or make molten gods for yourselves: I the LORD am your God. ‎(5) When you sacrifice an offering of well-being to the LORD, sacrifice it so that it may be accepted on your behalf. ‎(6) It shall be eaten on the day you sacrifice it, or on the day following; but what is left by the third day must be consumed in fire. ‎(7) If it should be eaten on the third day, it is an offensive thing, it will not be acceptable. ‎(8) And one who eats of it shall bear the guilt for having profaned what is sacred to the LORD; that person shall be cut off from kin. ‎(9) When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap all the way to the edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest. ‎(10) You shall not pick your vineyard bare, or gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger: I the LORD am your God. ‎(11) You shall not steal; you shall not deal deceitfully or falsely with one another. ‎(12) You shall not swear falsely by My name, profaning the name of your God: I am the LORD. ‎(13) You shall not defraud your fellow [Israelite]. You shall not commit robbery. The wages of a laborer shall not remain with you until morning. ‎(14) You shall not insult the deaf, or place a stumbling block before the blind. You shall fear your God: I am the LORD. ‎(15) You shall not render an unfair decision: do not favor the poor or show deference to the rich; judge your kin fairly. ‎(16) Do not deal basely with members of your people. Do not profit by the blood of your fellow [Israelite]: I am the LORD. ‎(17) You shall not hate your kinsfolk in your heart. Reprove your kin but incur no guilt on their account. ‎(18) You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against members of your people. Love your fellow [Israelite] as yourself: I am the LORD. ‎(19) You shall observe My laws. You shall not let your cattle mate with a different kind; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; you shall not put on cloth from a mixture of two kinds of material. ‎(20) If a man has carnal relations with a woman who is a slave and has been designated for another man, but has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there shall be an indemnity; they shall not, however, be put to death, since she has not been freed. ‎(21) But he must bring to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, as his guilt offering to the LORD, a ram of guilt offering. ‎(22) With the ram of guilt offering the priest shall make expiation for him before the LORD for the sin that he committed; and the sin that he committed will be forgiven him. ‎(23) When you enter the land and plant any tree for food, you shall regard its fruit as forbidden. Three years it shall be forbidden for you, not to be eaten. ‎(24) In the fourth year all its fruit shall be set aside for jubilation before the LORD; ‎(25) and only in the fifth year may you use its fruit—that its yield to you may be increased: I the LORD am your God. ‎(26) You shall not eat anything with its blood. You shall not practice divination or soothsaying. ‎(27) You [men] shall not round off the side-growth on your head, or destroy the side-growth of your beard. ‎(28) You shall not make gashes in your flesh for the dead, or incise any marks on yourselves: I am the LORD. ‎(29) Do not degrade your daughter and make her a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry and the land be filled with depravity. ‎(30) You shall keep My sabbaths and venerate My sanctuary: I am the LORD. ‎(31) Do not turn to ghosts and do not inquire of familiar spirits, to be defiled by them: I the LORD am your God. ‎(32) You shall rise before the aged and show deference to the old; you shall fear your God: I am the LORD. ‎(33) When strangers reside with you in your land, you shall not wrong them. ‎(34) The strangers who reside with you shall be to you as your citizens; you shall love each one as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I the LORD am your God. ‎(35) You shall not falsify measures of length, weight, or capacity. ‎(36) You shall have an honest balance, honest weights, an honest *ephah*, and an honest *hin*. I the LORD am your God who freed you from the land of Egypt. ‎(37) You shall faithfully observe all My laws and all My rules: I am the LORD.

Leviticus 19

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