Commandments for Holiness

1And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: You⁺ shall be holy, for I am holy—YHWH your⁺ God.†

3Each man shall fear his mother and his father, and you⁺ shall keep My Sabbaths. I am YHWH your⁺ God.

4You⁺ shall not turn to the idols, and you⁺ shall not make molten gods for yourselves. I am YHWH your⁺ God.

5And when you⁺ sacrifice a sacrifice of peace offerings to YHWH, you⁺ shall sacrifice it for your⁺ acceptance. 6It shall be eaten on the day of your⁺ sacrificing and on the next day. and the remainder until the third day, it shall be burned in the fire. 7And if any of it is eaten on the third day, it is an abomination; it shall not be accepted. 8And the one who eats it shall bear his iniquity because he has profaned the holy thing of YHWH, and that soul shall be cut off from his people.

Love Your Neighbor
(Romans 13:8–10)

9And in your⁺ reaping the harvest of your⁺ land, you shall not complete reaping the edge of your field, and the gleanings of your harvest you shall not gather. 10And your vineyard—you shall not glean, and the fallen grapes of your vineyard you shall not gather. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner. I am YHWH your⁺ God.

11You⁺ shall not steal, and you⁺ shall not deal falsely, and you⁺ shall not lie—a man to his neighbor.

12And you⁺ shall not swear by My name to a lie and so profane the name of your God. I am YHWH.

13You shall not oppress your neighbor, and you shall not rob.

The wage of a hireling shall not remain with you until morning.

14You shall not curse the deaf, and before the face of the blind you shall not put a stumbling block, and you shall fear your God. I am YHWH.

15You⁺ shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not lift up the face of the poor, and you shall not honor the face of the great; in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.

16You shall not go about as a slanderer among your people.

You shall not stand against the blood† of your neighbor. I am YHWH.

17You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor and you shall not you shall not lift up upon him sin. 18You shall not take vengeance, and you shall not bear a grudge against sons of your people, and you shall love your neighbor as yourself.† I am YHWH.

Keep My Statutes

19My statutes you⁺ shall keep: Your livestock you shall not cause to breed with two kinds; your field you shall not sow with two kinds, and a garment of two kinds of mixed material shall not go up upon you.

20And when a man lies with a woman, a lying of seed, and she is a maidservant betrothed to a man and has not been redeemed at all, or freedom has not been given to her, there shall be punishment. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free. 21And he shall bring his guilt offering to YHWH, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, a ram of a guilt offering. 22And the priest shall make atonement upon him with the ram of the guilt offering before the face of YHWH, upon his sin that he has sinned, and it shall be forgiven for him from his sin that he has sinned.

23And when you⁺ come into the land, and you plant every kind of tree for food, then you⁺ shall regard their fruit uncircumcised.† Three years it shall be uncircumcised to you⁺; it shall not be eaten. 24And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy praises to YHWH. 25And in the fifth year you⁺ shall eat its fruit, to add to you⁺ its yield. I am YHWH your⁺ God.

26You⁺ shall not eat with the blood.

You⁺ shall not practice divination, and you⁺ shall not practice soothsaying.

27You⁺ shall not round off the edge of your⁺ head, and you shall not destroy the edge of your beard.

28And a cutting for a soul you⁺ shall not make in your⁺ flesh, and a tattoo mark you⁺ shall not put on yourselves. I am YHWH.

29You shall not profane your daughter by making her practice prostitution, and the land will not practice prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.

30My Sabbaths you⁺ shall keep, and My sanctuary you⁺ shall fear. I am YHWH.

31You⁺ shall not turn to the mediums and to the spiritists; you⁺ shall not seek after them to be defiled by them. I am YHWH your⁺ God.

32Before the face of the gray headed you shall rise, and you shall honor the presence of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am YHWH.

33And if a sojourner sojourns with you in your⁺ land, you⁺ shall not oppress him. 34As a native from among you⁺ shall be to you⁺ the sojourner who is sojourning with you⁺, and you shall love him as yourself, for you⁺ were sojourners in the land of Egypt. I am YHWH your⁺ God.

35You⁺ shall not do injustice in judgment in measure, in weight, and in volume. 36Righteous scales, righteous stones, a righteous ephah,† and a righteous hin† shall be unto you⁺. I am YHWH your⁺ God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

37And you⁺ shall keep all My statutes and all My judgments, and you⁺ shall do them. I am YHWH.”

Footnotes:

2 Cited in 1 Peter 1:16
16 That is, the life
18 Cited in Matthew 5:43, Matthew 19:19, Matthew 22:39, Mark 12:31, Luke 10:27, Romans 13:9, Galatians 5:14, and James 2:8
23 That is, forbidden; twice in this verse
36 An ephah is a dry measure of approximately 20 dry quarts or 22 liters.
36 A hin is a liquid measure of approximately 0.97 gallons or 3.67 liters.