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Leviticus 19
1 And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,2 Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and say to them, You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.3 You shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am Yahweh your God.4 Don't turn yourselves to idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am Yahweh your God.5 And when you offer a sacrifice of peace-offerings to Yahweh, you shall offer it that you may be accepted.6 It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, and on the next day: and if anything remains until the third day, it shall be burnt with fire.7 And if it is eaten at all on the third day, it is contaminated; it shall not be accepted:8 but every one that eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of Yahweh: and that soul shall be cut off from his people.9 And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleaning of your harvest.10 And you shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am Yahweh your God.
11 You shall not steal; neither shall you deal falsely, nor lie one to another.12 And you shall not swear by my name falsely, and [thus] you profane the name of your God: I am Yahweh.13 You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him: the wages of a hired worker shall not abide with you all night until the morning.14 You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God: I am Yahweh.15 You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: you shall not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty; but in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.16 You shall not go up and down as a talebearer among your relatives: you shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor: I am Yahweh.17 You shall not hate your brother in your heart: you shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.18 You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am Yahweh.
19 You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle gender with a diverse kind: you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed: neither shall there come on you a garment of two kinds of stuff mingled together.20 And whoever has sex with a woman, that is a female slave, betrothed to a husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; they shall be punished; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.21 And he shall bring his trespass-offering to Yahweh, to the door of the tent of meeting, even a ram for a trespass-offering.22 And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering before Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned: and the sin which he has sinned shall be forgiven him.23 And when you shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then you shall count the fruit thereof as their uncircumcision: three years they shall be as uncircumcised to you; it shall not be eaten.24 But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, for inauguration to Yahweh.25 And in the fifth year you shall eat of its fruit, that it may yield to you the increase thereof: I am Yahweh your God.26 You shall not eat anything with the blood: neither shall you use magic, nor interpret omens.27 You shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shall you mar the corners of your beard.28 You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks on you: I am Yahweh.29 Don't profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.
30 You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.31 Do not turn to the spiritists or to the wizards; do not seek them out, to be defiled by them: I am Yahweh your God.32 You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and you shall fear your God: I am Yahweh.33 And if a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.34 The stranger that sojourns with you shall be to you as the home-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt: I am Yahweh your God.35 You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, you shall have: I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.37 And you shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them: I am Yahweh.
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