Leviticus 19

1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

And the Lord said to Moses,

2 “Speak to all the assembly of the people of Israel and say to them, 'You must be holy, for I Yahweh your God am holy.

Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.

3 Everyone must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

4 Do not turn to worthless idols, nor make for yourselves gods out of metal. I am Yahweh your God.

Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.

5 When you offer a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to Yahweh, you must offer it that you may be accepted.

And when you give a peace offering to the Lord, do it in the way which is pleasing to the Lord.

6 It must be eaten the same day you offer it, or on the next day. If anything remains until the third day, it must be burned up with fire.

Let it be used for food on the same day on which it is offered, or on the day after; and whatever is over on the third day is to be burned with fire.

7 If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is unclean meat; it must not be accepted,

If any of it is used for food on the third day, it is a disgusting thing and will not be pleasing to the Lord.

8 and everyone who eats it must carry his own guilt because he has defiled what is holy to Yahweh, and that person must be cut off from his people.

And as for anyone who takes it for food, his sin will be on him, for he has put shame on the holy thing of the Lord: he will be cut off from his people.

9 When you reap the harvest of your land, you must not completely reap the corners of your field, neither will you gather all the produce of your harvest.

And when you get in the grain from your land, do not let all the grain be cut from the edges of the field, or take up what has been dropped on the earth after the getting in of the grain.

10 You must not gather every grape from your vineyard, nor gather the grapes that have fallen on the ground in your vineyard. You must leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.

And do not take all the grapes from your vine-garden, or the fruit dropped on the earth; let the poor man, and the man from another country, have these: I am the Lord your God.

11 Do not steal. Do not lie. Do not deceive each other.

Do not take anyone's property or be false in act or word to another.

12 Do not swear by my name falsely and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

And do not take an oath in my name falsely, putting shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.

13 Do not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant must not stay with you all night until the morning.

Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.

14 Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind. Instead, you must fear your God. I am Yahweh.

Do not put a curse on those who have no hearing, or put a cause of falling in the way of the blind, but keep the fear of your God before you: I am the Lord.

15 Do not cause judgment to be false. You must not show favoritism to someone because he is poor, and you must not show favoritism to someone because he is important. Instead, judge your neighbor righteously.

Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.

16 Do not walk around spreading slander among your people, but seek to protect your neighbor's life. I am Yahweh.

Do not go about saying untrue things among your people, or take away the life of your neighbour by false witness: I am the Lord.

17 Do not hate your brother in your heart. You must honestly rebuke your neighbor so as not to share in sin because of him.

Let there be no hate in your heart for your brother; but you may make a protest to your neighbour, so that he may be stopped from doing evil.

18 Do not take vengeance or hold any grudge against any of your people, but instead love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

Do not make attempts to get equal with one who has done you wrong, or keep hard feelings against the children of your people, but have love for your neighbour as for yourself: I am the Lord.

19 You must keep my commands. Do not try to breed your animals with different kinds of other animals. Do not mix two different kinds of seeds when planting your field. Do not wear clothing made of two kinds of material mixed together.

Keep my laws. Do not let your cattle have offspring by those of a different sort; do not put mixed seed into your field; do not put on a robe made of two sorts of cloth.

20 Whoever sleeps with a slave girl who is promised to a husband, but who has not been ransomed or given her freedom, they must be punished. They must not be put to death because she was not free.

If any man has sex relations with a servant-woman who has given her word to be married to a man, and has not been made free for a price or in any other way, the thing will be looked into; but they will not be put to death because she was not a free woman.

21 A man must bring his guilt offering to Yahweh to the entrance to the tent of meeting—a ram as a guilt offering.

Let him take his offering for wrongdoing to the Lord, to the door of the Tent of meeting; let him give a male sheep as an offering for wrongdoing.

22 Then the priest will make atonement for him with the ram for the guilt offering before Yahweh, for the sin that he has committed. Then the sin which he has committed will be forgiven.

And the priest will take away his sin before the Lord with the sheep which is offered for his wrongdoing, and he will have forgiveness for the sin which he has done.

23 When you come into the land and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you must regard the fruit they produce as forbidden to be eaten. The fruit must be forbidden to you for three years. It must not be eaten.

And when you have come into the land, and have put in all sorts of fruit-trees, their fruit will be as if they had not had circumcision, and for three years their fruit may not be used for food.

24 But in the fourth year all the fruit will be holy, an offering of praise to Yahweh.

And in the fourth year all the fruit will be holy as a praise-offering to the Lord.

25 In the fifth you may eat the fruit, having waited so that the trees might produce more. I am Yahweh your God.

But in the fifth year you may take the fruit and the increase of it for your food: I am the Lord your God.

26 Do not eat any meat with blood still in it. Do not consult spirits about the future, and do not seek to control others by supernatural powers.

Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders.

27 You will not round off the corners of the hair on the sides of your head or shave off the edge of your beard.

The ends of the hair round your face and on your chin may not be cut off.

28 Do not cut your body for the dead or put tattoo marks on your body. I am Yahweh.

You may not make cuts in your flesh in respect for the dead, or have marks printed on your bodies: I am the Lord.

29 Do not disgrace your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the nation will fall to prostitution and the land will become full of wickedness.

Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a loose woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame.

30 You must keep my Sabbaths and honor the sanctuary of my tabernacle. I am Yahweh.

Keep my Sabbaths and have respect for my holy place: I am the Lord.

31 Do not turn to those who talk with the dead or with spirits. Do not seek them out, or they will defile you. I am Yahweh your God.

Do not go after those who make use of spirits, or wonder-workers; do not go in their ways or become unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

32 You must rise before the gray-headed person and honor the presence of an old man. You must fear your God. I am Yahweh.

Get up from your seats before the white-haired, and give honour to the old, and let the fear of your God be before you: I am the Lord.

33 If a foreigner lives among you in your land, you must not do him any wrong.

And if a man from another country is living in your land with you, do not make life hard for him;

34 The foreigner who lives with you must be to you like the native-born Israelite who lives among you, and you must love him as yourself, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

Let him be to you as one of your countrymen and have love for him as for yourself; for you were living in a strange land, in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

35 Do not use false measures when measuring length, weight, or quantity.

Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures.

36 You must use just scales, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;

37 You must obey all my decrees and all my laws, and do them. I am Yahweh.'”

You are to keep all my rules and my decisions and do them: I am the Lord.