Leviticus 19
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 Speak to the congregation of the
children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Ye shall be holy; for I the
Lord your God am holy.
3 Let every one of you reverence his
father and his mother; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I
am the Lord your God.
4 Ye shall not follow idols, and ye
shall not make to yourselves molten gods: I am the
Lord your God. 5 And if ye will
sacrifice a peace-offering to the Lord, ye shall offer it acceptable from
yourselves. 6 In what day soever ye
shall sacrifice it, it shall be eaten; and on the following day, and if any of
it should be left till the third day, it shall be thoroughly burnt with fire.
7 And if it should be at all eaten on
the third day, it is unfit for sacrifice: it shall not be accepted.
8 And he that eats it shall bear his
iniquity, because he has profaned the holy things of the Lord; and the souls
that eat it shall be destroyed from among their people.
9 And when ye reap the harvest of your
land, ye shall not complete the reaping of your field with exactness, and thou
shalt not gather that which falls from thy reaping.
10 And thou shalt not go over the
gathering of thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather the remaining grapes of
thy vineyard: thou shalt leave them for the poor and the stranger: I am the
Lord your God. 11 Ye shall not steal,
ye shall not lie, neither shall one bear false witness as an informer against
his neighbour. 12 And ye shall not
swear unjustly by my name, and ye shall not profane the holy name of your God:
I am the Lord your God. 13 Thou shalt
not injure thy neighbour, neither do thou rob him,
neither shall the wages of thy hireling remain with thee until the morning.
14 Thou shalt not revile the deaf,
neither shalt thou put a stumbling-block in the way of the blind; and thou
shalt fear the Lord thy God: I am the Lord your God.
15 Thou shalt not act unjustly in
judgment: thou shalt not accept the person of the poor, nor admire the person
of the mighty; with justice shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
16 Thou shalt not walk deceitfully
among thy people; thou shalt not rise up against the blood of thy neighbour: I
am the Lord your God. 17 Thou shalt
not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy
neighbour, so thou shalt not bear sin on his account.
18 And thy hand shall not avenge
thee; and thou shalt not be angry with the children of thy people; and thou
shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; I am the Lord.
19 Ye shall observe my law: thou
shalt not let thy cattle gender with one of a different kind, and thou shalt
not sow thy vineyard with diverse seed; and thou shalt not put upon thyself a
mingled garment woven of two materials.
20 And if any one lie carnally with a
woman, and she should be a home-servant kept for a man, and she has not been
ransomed, and her freedom has not been given to her,
they shall be visited with punishment; but they shall
not die, because she was not set at liberty.
21 And he shall bring for his
trespass to the Lord to the door of the tabernacle of witness, a ram for a
trespass-offering. 22 And the priest
shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering, before the
Lord, for the sin which he sinned; and the sin which he sinned shall be
forgiven him. 23 And whenever ye
shall enter into the land which the Lord your God gives you, and shall plant
any fruit-tree, then shall ye purge away its uncleanness; its fruit shall be
three years uncleansed to you, it shall not be eaten.
24 And in the fourth year all its
fruit shall be holy, a subject of praise to the Lord.
25 And in the fifth year ye shall eat
the fruit, its produce is an increase to you. I am the Lord your God.
26 Eat not on the mountains, nor
shall ye employ auguries, nor divine by inspection of birds.
27 Ye shall not make a round cutting
of the hair of your head, nor disfigure your beard.
28 And ye shall not make cuttings in
your body for a dead body, and ye shall not inscribe
on yourselves any marks. I am the Lord your God.
29 Thou shalt not profane thy
daughter to prostitute her; so the land shall not go a whoring, and the land
be filled with iniquity. 30 Ye shall
keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuaries: I am the Lord.
31 Ye shall not attend to those who
have in them divining spirits, nor attach yourselves to enchanters, to pollute
yourselves with them: I am the Lord your God.
32 Thou shalt rise up before the
hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and shalt fear thy God: I am
the Lord your God. 33 And if there
should come to you a stranger in your land, ye shall not afflict him.
34 The stranger that comes to you
shall be among you as the native, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye
were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
35 Ye shall not act unrighteously in
judgment, in measures and weights and scales.
36 There shall be among you just
balances and just weights and a just liquid measure. I am the Lord your God,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
37 And ye shall keep all my law and
all my ordinances, and ye shall do them: I am the Lord your God.