Lev 19
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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
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Speak to the congregation of the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, You
shall be holy; for I the Lord your God am holy.
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Let every one of you Gr. fear reverence his father and his mother; and you shall keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord
your God.
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You shall not follow idols, and you shall not make to yourselves molten gods: I am
the Lord your God.
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And if you will sacrifice a peace-offering to the Lord, you shall offer it acceptable
from yourselves.
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In what day soever you 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.
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And if it should be at all eaten on the third day, it is unfit for sacrifice: it shall
not be accepted.
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And he who 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.
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And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not complete the reaping of
your field with exactness, and you shall not gather that which falls from your reaping.
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And you shall not go over the gathering of your vineyard, neither shall you gather
the Lit. grapestones of husks remaining grapes of your vineyard: you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger:
I am the Lord your God.
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You shall not steal, you shall not lie, neither shall Gr. each one bear false witness as an informer against his neighbour.
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And you shall not swear unjustly by my name, and you shall not profane the holy name
of your God: I am the Lord your God.
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You shall not injure your neighbour, neither do you rob him, neither shall the wages
of your hireling remain with you until the morning.
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You shall not revile the deaf, neither shall you put a stumbling-block in the way
of the blind; and you shall fear the Lord your God: I am the Lord your God.
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You shall not act unjustly in judgement: you shall not accept the person of the poor,
nor admire the person of the mighty; with justice shall you judge your neighbour.
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You shall not walk deceitfully among your people; you shall not rise up against the
blood of your neighbour: I am the Lord your God.
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You shall not hate your brother in your heart: you shall in any wise rebuke your neighbour,
so you shall not bear sin on his account.
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And your hand shall not avenge you; and you shall not be angry with the children of
your people; Mt 22:39 and you shall love your neighbour as yourself; I am the Lord.
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You shall observe my law: you shall not let your cattle gender with one of a different
kind, and you shall not sow your vineyard with diverse seed; and you shall not put
upon yourself a mingled garment woven of two materials.
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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.
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And he shall bring for his trespass to the Lord to the door of the tabernacle of witness,
a ram for a trespass-offering.
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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.
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And whenever you shall enter into the land which the Lord your God gives you, and
shall plant any fruit-tree, then shall you purge away its uncleanness; its fruit shall
be three years uncleansed to you, it shall not be eaten.
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And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, Gr. laudable a subject of praise to the Lord.
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And in the fifth year you shall eat the fruit, its produce is an increase to you.
I am the Lord your God.
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Eat not on the mountains, nor shall you employ auguries, nor divine by inspection
of birds.
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You shall not make a round cutting of the hair of your head, nor Gr. mar the appearance of disfigure your beard.
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And you shall not make cuttings in your body for a dead Gr. soul; Heb. vpn; q. d. that animal from which once breathed body,
and you shall not inscribe on yourselves any marks. I am the Lord your God.
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You shall not profane your daughter to prostitute her; so the land shall not go a
whoring, and the land be filled with iniquity.
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You shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuaries: I am the Lord.
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You shall not attend to Gr. ventriloquists those who have in them divining spirits, nor attach yourselves to enchanters, to
pollute yourselves with them: I am the Lord your God.
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You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and shall
fear your God: I am the Lord your God.
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And if there should come to you a stranger in your land, you shall not afflict him.
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The stranger that comes to you shall be among you as the native, and you shall love
him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
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You shall not act unrighteously in judgement, in measures and weights and scales.
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There shall be among you just balances and just weights and just liquid measure. I
am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
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And you shall keep all my law and all my ordinances, and you shall do them: I am the
Lord your God.