1And the
Lord spoke to Moses and said,
2“Speak to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘
You will be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.
3Every
man shall fear his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths. I
am the
Lord your God.
4Do not turn to idols, nor make yourselves cast gods. I
am the
Lord your God.
5And if you offer a peace-sacrifice to the
Lord, you will offer it for your acceptance.
6It will be eaten on the day of your sacrifice, and on the next day. Then what remains up to the third day will be burned with fire.
7And if it is eaten at all on the third day, it
is a foul thing – it will not be accepted.
8And he who eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned the holiness of the
Lord, and that person will be cut off from his people.
9And when you reap the harvest of your land, you will not completely reap the corners of your field, and you will not glean gleanings of your harvest.
10And you will not re-harvest your vineyard, and you will not glean fallen fruit of your vineyard; you will leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I
am the
Lord your God.
11You will not steal, and you will not deceive, and you will not lie to one another.
12And
you will not swear in my name falsely, so profaning the name of your God. I
am the
Lord.
13You shall not defraud your neighbour, and you will not plunder
him, and you will not keep the wages of a hired labourer with you until the morning.
14You shall not curse the deaf, and you shall not put a stumbling block before the blind. And you will fear your God. I
am the
Lord.
15You shall not commit injustice in judgment; you shall not show partiality before the poor, nor shall you show honour before the great; you shall judge your fellow citizen in righteousness.
16You shall not go
around slandering among your people. You shall not threaten
to draw your neighbour's blood. I
am the
Lord.
17You shall not hate your brother in your heart, you will certainly reprove your fellow citizen, and you will not countenance him
in sin.
18You will not take revenge, and you will not bear
a grudge against the sons of your people, and
you shall love your neighbour as yourself. I
am the
Lord.
19You shall keep my statutes; you shall not breed your cattle across species; you shall not sow your field with diverse species, and no garment of diverse interwoven threads will come on you.
20And if a man lies in intercourse with a woman who
is a bondmaid acquired for a man, and she has not been redeemed at all and no freedom has been granted to her,
then they will be scourged. They shall not be put to death, for she has not been made free.
21And he will bring his guilt-offering to the
Lord, to the entrance of the tent of contact – the ram of a guilt-offering.
22And the priest will atone for him with the ram of the guilt-offering before the
Lord for his sin which he committed, and his sin which he committed will be forgiven him.
23And when you go into the land, you will plant all
kinds of trees for food, but you will regard their fruit as uncircumcised – you will wait three years
during which they will be uncircumcised to you
and not eaten.
24But in the fourth year all their fruit will be a holy
object of praise to the
Lord.
25And in the fifth year you will eat its fruit, and it will increase its produce to you. I
am the
Lord your God.
26You shall not eat
it with blood; you shall not use enchantment, and you shall not divine by clouds.
27You shall not cut round the sides of your head, and you shall not spoil the sides of your beard.
28And you shall not make a cutting in your flesh for the soul, and you shall not put an incised mark on yourselves. I
am the
Lord.
29Do not profane your daughter by letting her become a prostitute, and do not let the land fall into whoredom, whereby the land
would be full of lewdness.
30Keep my Sabbaths, and fear my sanctuary. I
am the
Lord.
31Do not turn to the soothsayers, and do not seek wizards,
whereby you would be defiled by them. I
am the
Lord your God.
32You shall rise before the aged, and respect the old, and you will fear your God. I
am the
Lord.
33And if a foreigner is resident in your land, you shall not oppress him.
34The foreigner resident among you will be as a native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I
am the
Lord your God.
35Do not commit injustice in judgment,
or in
dry measure, in weights
or in
liquid measure.
36You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah and a just hin. I
am the
Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
37And you will keep all my statutes and all my regulations, and you will do them. I
am the
Lord.’ ”
Reference(s) in Chapter 19: v.2 ↔ 1 Peter 1:16 ● v.12 ↔ Matthew 5:33 ● v.18 ↔ Matthew 5:43, Matthew 19:19, Matthew 22:39, Mark 12:31, Mark 12:33, Luke 10:27, Romans 13:9, Galatians 5:14, James 2:8.