LEB - Leviticus - 19

19:1  Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

19:2  “Speak to all the community of the ⌞Israelites⌟, and say to them, ‘You must be holy, because I, Yahweh your God, am holy.

19:3  Each of you must revere your mother and your father, and you must keep my Sabbaths; I am Yahweh your God.

19:4  You must not turn to idols, and you must not make for yourselves gods of cast metal; I am Yahweh your God.

19:5  “ ‘And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to Yahweh, you must sacrifice it for your acceptance.

19:6  It must be eaten on the day of your sacrifice and the next day; but the remainder must be burned up in the fire by the third day.

19:7  And if it is indeed eaten on the third day, it is unclean meat; it shall not be regarded as accepted.

19:8  And the one who eats it shall bear his guilt, because he has profaned Yahweh’s holiness, and that person shall be cut off from his people.

19:9  “ ‘And at your reaping the harvest of your land you must not finish reaping the edge of your field, and you must not glean the remnants of your harvest.

19:10  And you must not glean your vineyard, and you must not gather your vineyard’s fallen grapes; you must leave them behind for the needy and for the alien; I am Yahweh your God.

19:11  “ ‘You shall not steal, and you shall not deceive, and you shall not lie ⌞to one another⌟;

19:12  and you shall not swear ⌞falsely⌟ in my name, and so one of you profane the name of your God; I am Yahweh.

19:13  “ ‘You shall not exploit your neighbor, and you shall not rob him; a hired worker’s wage you shall not ⌞withhold⌟ overnight until morning.

19:14  You shall not curse the deaf, and you shall not put a stumbling block ⌞before⌟ a blind person, but you shall revere your God; I am Yahweh.

19:15  “ ‘You shall not do injustice in judgment; ⌞you shall not show partiality to the powerless⌟; you shall not give preference ⌞to the powerful⌟; you shall judge your fellow citizen with justice.

19:16  You shall not go about with slander among your people; ⌞you shall not endanger your neighbor’s life⌟; I am Yahweh.

19:17  “ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart; you shall surely rebuke your fellow citizen, so that you do not incur sin ⌞along with⌟ him.

19:18  You shall not seek vengeance, and you shall not harbor a grudge against ⌞your fellow citizens⌟; and you shall love your neighbor like yourself; I am Yahweh.

19:19  “ ‘You must keep my statutes: as for your domestic animals, you shall not cause two differing kinds to breed; as for your field, you shall not sow two differing kinds of seed; and, a garment of two differing kinds of woven material should not be worn on you.

19:20  “ ‘And when a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen and she is a female slave promised to a man, but she indeed has not been ransomed or freedom has not be given to her, there shall be an obligation to compensate; they shall not be put to death, because she has not been freed.

19:21  And he shall bring his guilt offering to Yahweh at the tent of assembly’s entrance: a ram for a guilt offering.

19:22  And the priest shall make atonement for him ⌞before⌟ Yahweh with the ram of the guilt offering for his sin that he ⌞committed⌟, and so his sin that he ⌞committed⌟ shall be forgiven him.

19:23  “ ‘And when you have come into the land and you plant any tree for food, ⌞you shall regard its fruit as unharvestable⌟; for three years it shall be forbidden for you; it shall not be eaten.

19:24  But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, offerings of praise for Yahweh.

19:25  And in the fifth year you shall eat its fruit to increase its yield for you; I am Yahweh your God.

19:26  “ ‘You must not eat anything with the blood; you shall not practice divination, nor shall you interpret signs.

19:27  You shall not round off the corner hair of your head, and you shall not trim the corner of your beard.

19:28  And you shall not make a slash in your body for a dead person, nor shall you make on yourselves a tattoo’s mark; I am Yahweh.

19:29  “ ‘You shall not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, ⌞lest the land be prostituted and the land fill up with depravity⌟.

19:30  You shall keep my Sabbaths, and you shall revere my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.

19:31  “ ‘You shall not turn to the mediums and to the soothsayers; you shall not seek them to become unclean with them; I am Yahweh your God.

19:32  “ ‘⌞Before⌟ old age you shall get up, and you shall show respect for an old person; and you shall revere your God; I am Yahweh.

19:33  “ ‘And when an alien dwells with you in your land, you shall not oppress him.

19:34  The alien who is dwelling with you shall be like a native among you, and you shall love him like yourself, because you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.

19:35  “ ‘You shall not commit injustice in regulation, in measurement, in weight, or volume.

19:36  You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin; I am Yahweh your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt.

19:37  “ ‘Thus you shall keep all my statutes and all my regulations, and you shall do them; I am Yahweh.’ ”