19:1 AND THE Lord said to Moses, |
19:2 Say to all the assembly of the Israelites, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. |
19:3 Each of you shall give due respect to his mother and his father, and keep My Sabbaths holy. I the Lord am your God. |
19:4 Do not turn to idols {and} things of nought or make for yourselves molten gods. I the Lord am your God. |
19:5 And when you offer a sacrifice of peace offering 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 day following; and if anything remains until the third day, it shall be burned in the fire. |
19:7 If it is eaten at all the third day, it is loathsome; it will not be accepted. |
19:8 But everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, for he has profaned a holy thing of the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from his people [and not be included in the atonement made for them]. |
19:9 And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field to its very corners, neither shall you gather the fallen ears {or} gleanings of your harvest. |
19:10 And you shall not glean your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather its fallen grapes; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger. I am the Lord your God. |
19:11 You shall not steal, or deal falsely, or lie one to another. |
19:12 And you shall not swear by My name falsely, neither shall you profane the name of your God. I am the Lord. |
19:13 You shall not defraud {or} oppress your neighbor or rob him; the wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until morning. |
19:14 You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall [reverently] fear your God. I am the Lord. |
19:15 You shall do no injustice in judging a case; you shall not be partial to the poor or show a preference for the mighty, but in righteousness {and} according to the merits of the case judge your neighbor. |
19:16 You shall not go up and down as a dispenser of gossip {and} scandal among your people, nor shall you [secure yourself by false testimony or by silence and] endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the Lord. |
19:17 You shall not hate your brother in your heart; but you shall surely rebuke your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. |
19:18 You shall not take revenge or bear any grudge against the sons 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 let your domestic animals breed with a different kind [of animal]; you shall not sow your field with mixed seed, neither wear a garment of linen mixed with wool. |
19:20 And if a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave betrothed to a husband and not yet ransomed or given her freedom, they shall be punished [after investigation]; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free; |
19:21 But he shall bring his guilt {or} trespass offering to the Lord to the door of the Tent of Meeting, a ram for a guilt {or} trespass offering. |
19:22 The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt {or} trespass offering before the Lord for his sin, and he shall be forgiven for committing the sin. |
19:23 And when you come into the land and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count the fruit of them as inedible {and} forbidden to you for three years; it shall not be eaten. |
19:24 In the fourth year all their fruit shall be holy for giving praise to the Lord. |
19:25 But in the fifth year you may eat of the fruit [of the trees], that their produce may enrich you; I am the Lord your God. |
19:26 You shall not eat anything with the blood; neither shall you use magic, omens, {or} witchcraft [or predict events by horoscope or signs and lucky days]. |
19:27 You shall not round the corners of the hair of your heads nor trim the corners of your beard [as some idolaters do]. |
19:28 You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead nor print {or} tattoo any marks upon you; I am the Lord. |
19:29 Do not profane your daughter by causing her to be a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry and become full of wickedness. |
19:30 You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary. I am the Lord. |
19:31 Turn not to those [mediums] who have familiar spirits or to wizards; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God. |
19:32 You shall rise up before the hoary head and honor the face of the old man and [reverently] fear your God. I am the Lord. |
19:33 And if a stranger dwells temporarily with you in your land, you shall not suppress {and} mistreat him. |
19:34 But the stranger who dwells with you shall be to you as one born among you; and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. |
19:35 You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity. |
19:36 You shall have accurate {and} just balances, just weights, just ephah and hin measures. I am the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt. |
19:37 You shall observe all My statutes and ordinances and do them. I am the Lord. |