Leviticus 19

¹And the Lord spoke to Moses , saying ,

²Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy , for I the Lord your God am holy .

³Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father , and you shall keep my Sabbaths : I am the Lord your God .

⁴Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal : I am the Lord your God .

⁵When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted .

⁶It shall be eaten the same day you offer it or on the day after , and anything left over until the third day shall be burned up with fire .

⁷If it is eaten at all on the third day , it is tainted ; it will not be accepted ,

⁸and everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity , because he has profaned what is holy to the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from his people .

⁹When you reap the harvest of your land , you shall not reap your field right up to its edge , neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest .

¹⁰And you shall not strip your vineyard bare , neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard . You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner : I am the Lord your God .

¹¹You shall not steal ; you shall not deal falsely ; you shall not lie to one another .

¹²You shall not swear by my name falsely , and so profane the name of your God : I am the Lord.

¹³You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired worker shall not remain with you all night until the morning .

¹⁴You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind , but you shall fear your God : I am the Lord.

¹⁵You shall do no injustice in court . You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great , but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor .

¹⁶You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people , and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor : I am the Lord.

¹⁷You shall not hate your brother in your heart , but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor , lest you incur sin because of him.

¹⁸You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people , but you shall love your neighbor as yourself : I am the Lord.

¹⁹You shall keep my statutes . You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind . You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed , nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material .

²⁰If a man lies sexually with a woman who is a slave , assigned to another man and not yet ransomed or given her freedom , a distinction shall be made. They shall not be put to death , because she was not free ;

²¹but he shall bring his compensation to the Lord, to the entrance of the tent of meeting , a ram for a guilt offering .

²²And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the Lord for his sin that he has committed , and he shall be forgiven for the sin that he has committed .

²³When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food , then you shall regard its fruit as forbidden . Three years it shall be forbidden to you; it must not be eaten .

²⁴And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy , an offering of praise to the Lord.

²⁵But in the fifth year you may eat of its fruit , to increase its yield for you: I am the Lord your God .

²⁶You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes .

²⁷You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard .

²⁸You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.

²⁹Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute , lest the land fall into prostitution and the land become full of depravity .

³⁰You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary : I am the Lord.

³¹Do not turn to mediums or necromancers ; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God .

³²You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man , and you shall fear your God : I am the Lord.

³³When a stranger sojourns with you in your land , you shall not do him wrong .

³⁴You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt : I am the Lord your God .

³⁵You shall do no wrong in judgment , in measures of length or weight or quantity .

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 shall observe all my statutes and all my rules , and do them: I am the Lord.