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Leviticus, starting at chapter 19
{19:1} The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, {19:2} "Speak to all the
congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, 'You shall be
holy; for I the LORD your God am holy.
{19:3} "'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father.
You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
{19:4} "'Don't turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I
am the LORD your God.
{19:5} "'When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD,
you shall offer it so that you may be accepted. {19:6} 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 burned with fire. {19:7} If
it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination. It will not
be accepted; {19:8} but everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity,
because he has profaned the holy thing of the LORD, and that soul
shall be cut off from his people.
{19:9} "'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not
wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the
gleanings of your harvest. {19:10} You shall not glean your vineyard,
neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall
leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.
{19:11} "'You shall not steal.
"'You shall not lie.
"'You shall not deceive one another.
{19:12} "'You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the
name of your God. I am the LORD.
{19:13} "'You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him.
"'The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night
until the morning.
{19:14} "'You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block
before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.
{19:15} "'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be
partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall
judge your neighbor in righteousness.
{19:16} "'You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your
people.
"'You shall not endanger the [1>]life[<1] of your neighbor. I am the
LORD.
{19:17} "'You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall
surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
{19:18} "'You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against
the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as
yourself. I am the LORD.
{19:19} "'You shall keep my statutes.
"'You shall not crossbreed different kinds of animals.
"'you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed;
"'neither shall there come upon on you a garment made of two kinds
of material.
{19:20} "'If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl,
pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her
freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death,
because she was not free. {19:21} He shall bring his trespass offering
to the LORD, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, even a ram for a
trespass offering. {19:22} The priest shall make atonement for him
with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin
which he has committed: and the sin which he has committed shall be
forgiven him.
{19:23} "'When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of
trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as [2>]forbidden.[<2]
Three years shall they be forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten.
{19:24} But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, for giving
praise to the LORD. {19:25} In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit,
that it may yield its increase to you. I am the LORD your God.
{19:26} "'You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it;
neither shall you use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.
{19:27} "'You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your heads,
neither shall you clip off the edge of your beard.
{19:28} "'You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the
dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am the LORD.
{19:29} "'Don't profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute;
lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of
wickedness.
{19:30} "'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I
am the LORD.
{19:31} "'Don't turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards.
Don't seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.
{19:32} "'You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face
of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.
{19:33} "'If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land,
you shall not do him wrong. {19:34} The stranger who lives as a
foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and
you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the
land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
{19:35} "'You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures
of length, of weight, or of quantity. {19:36} You shall have just
balances, just weights, a just [3>]efah,[<3] and a just hin. I am the
LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
{19:37} "'You shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances,
and do them. I am the LORD.'"
{20:1} The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, {20:2} "Moreover, you shall
tell the children of Israel, 'Anyone of the children of Israel, or of
the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his
seed to Molech; he shall surely be put to death. The people of the
land shall stone him with stones. {20:3} I also will set my face
against that person, and will cut him off from among his people
because he has given of his seed to Molech, to defile my sanctuary,
and to profane my holy name. {20:4} If the people of the land all hide
their eyes from that person, when he gives of his seed to Molech, and
don't put him to death; {20:5} then I will set my face against that
man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play
the prostitute after him, to play the prostitute with Molech, from
among their people.
{20:6} "'The person that turns to those who are mediums, and to the
wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face
against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.
{20:7} "'Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am the
LORD your God. {20:8} You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am
the LORD who sanctifies you.
{20:9} "'For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall
surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his
blood shall be upon him.
{20:10} "'The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even
he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and
the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
{20:11} "'The man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his
father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their
blood shall be upon them.
{20:12} "'If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall
surely be put to death: they have committed a perversion; their blood
shall be upon them.
{20:13} "'If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them
have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death;
their blood shall be upon them.
{20:14} "'If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness:
they shall be burned with fire, both he and they; that there may be no
wickedness among you.
{20:15} "'If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to
death; and you shall kill the animal.
{20:16} "'If a woman approaches any animal, and lies down with it,
you shall kill the woman, and the animal: they shall surely be put to
death; their blood shall be upon them.
{20:17} "'If a man takes his sister, his father's daughter, or his
mother's daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness;
it is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the
children of their people: he has uncovered his sister's nakedness; he
shall bear his iniquity.
{20:18} "'If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and
uncovers her nakedness; he has made naked her fountain, and she has
uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off
from among their people.
{20:19} "'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's
sister, nor of your father's sister; for he has made naked his close
relative: they shall bear their iniquity. {20:20} If a man lies with
his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall
bear their sin; they shall die childless.
{20:21} "'If a man takes his brother's wife, it is an impurity: he
has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.
{20:22} "'You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my
ordinances, and do them; that the land, where I am bringing you to
dwell, may not vomit you out. {20:23} You shall not walk in the
customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you: for they did
all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. {20:24} But I have
said to you, "You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you
to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey." I am the LORD your
God, who has separated you from the peoples.
{20:25} "'You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean
animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean:
and you shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or
by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from
you as unclean for you. {20:26} You shall be holy to me: for I, the
LORD, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you
should be mine.
{20:27} "'A man or a woman that is a medium, or is a wizard, shall
surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones; their blood
shall be upon them.'"
{21:1} The LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of
Aaron, and say to them, 'A priest shall not defile himself for the
dead among his people; {21:2} except for his relatives that are near
to him: for his mother, for his father, for his son, for his daughter,
for his brother, {21:3} and for his virgin sister who is near to him,
who has had no husband; for her he may defile himself. {21:4} He shall
not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane
himself.
{21:5} "'They shall not shave their heads, neither shall they shave
off the corners of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
{21:6} They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of
their God; for they offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the
bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.
{21:7} "'They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or
profane; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband:
for he is holy to his God. {21:8} You shall sanctify him therefore;
for he offers the bread of your God: he shall be holy to you: for I
the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy.
{21:9} "'The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by
playing the prostitute, she profanes her father: she shall be burned
with fire.
{21:10} "'He who is the high priest among his brothers, upon whose
head the anointing oil is poured, and that is consecrated to put on
the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose, nor tear
his clothes; {21:11} neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor
defile himself for his father, or for his mother; {21:12} neither
shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his
God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him. I am
the LORD.
{21:13} "'He shall take a wife in her virginity. {21:14} A widow, or
one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these
he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a
wife. {21:15} He shall not profane his seed among his people: for I am
the LORD who sanctifies him.'"
{21:16} The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, {21:17} "Say to Aaron,
'None of your seed throughout their generations who has a blemish, may
approach to offer the bread of his God. {21:18} For whatever man he is
that has a blemish, he shall not draw near: a blind man, or a lame, or
he who has a flat nose, or any deformity, {21:19} or a man who has an
injured foot, or an injured hand, {21:20} or hunchbacked, or a dwarf,
or one who has a defect in his eye, or an itching disease, or scabs,
or who has damaged testicles; {21:21} no man of the seed of Aaron the
priest who has a blemish, shall come near to offer the offerings of
the LORD made by fire. Since he has a blemish, he shall not come near
to offer the bread of his God. {21:22} He shall eat the bread of his
God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. {21:23} He shall not come
near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a
blemish; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am the LORD who
sanctifies them.'"
{21:24} So Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the
children of Israel.
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Footnotes:
[1] {19:16} literally, "blood"
[2] {19:23} literally, "uncircumcised"
[3] {19:36} 1 efah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
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