Leviticus 19
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Commandments for Holiness

1And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying,

2Speak to the assembly of the sons of Israel, and say to them, Ye shall be holy, for I Jehovah your God am holy. 3Ye shall fear each his mother and his father, and my Sabbaths ye shall watch: I am Jehovah your God. 4Ye shall not turn to vain things, and molten gods ye shall not make to yourselves: I am Jehovah your God.

5And when ye shall sacrifice a sacrifice of peace to Jehovah, ye shall sacrifice at your will. 6In the day of your sacrifice it shall be eaten, and on the morrow: and that remaining till the third day shall be burnt in fire. 7And if eating, it shall be eaten in the third day, it is abomination; it shall not be accepted. 8And he eating it shall bear his iniquity, for he profaned the holy thing of Jehovah; and that soul was cut off from its people.

Love Your Neighbor
(Romans 13:8–10)

9And in your reaping the harvest of your land thou shalt not finish to reap the extremity of thy field, and thou shalt not gather the gleaning of thy harvest. 10And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, and the scattering of thy vineyard thou shalt not glean; to the poor and to the stranger thou shalt leave them: I am Jehovah your God.

11Ye shall not steal and ye shall not deceive, and ye shall not lie each to his neighbor. 12And ye shall not swear in my name for falsehood, and profane the name of thy God: I Jehovah.

13Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbor, and thou shalt not rob: the wages of the hireling shall not remain with thee till morning. 14Thou shalt not curse the deaf, and before the blind thou shalt not give a stumbling block, and thou shalt fear thy God: I Jehovah.

15Ye shall not do evil in judgment; thou shalt not take up the face of the poor; thou shalt not reverence the face of the great: in justice shalt thou judge thy neighbor. 16Thou shalt not go a slanderer among thy people; thou shalt not stand upon the blood of thy neighbor: I Jehovah.

17Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: rebuking, thou shalt rebuke thy neighbor, and thou shalt not take sin upon him. 18Thou shalt not avenge thyself nor keep anger with the sons of thy people, and didst love thy neighbor as thyself. I Jehovah.

Keep My Statutes

19My laws shall ye watch: thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with two diverse kinds: thy field thou shalt not sow with two diverse kinds; and a garment of two diverse kinds (of linen and woolen) shall not come upon thee.

20And when a man shall lie with a woman with effusion of seed, and she a maid-servant betrothed to a man, and not redeemed by ransoming, and freedom not given to her, there shall be a punishment: they shall not die because she was not free. 21And he brought his trespass to Jehovah, to the door of the tent of appointment, a ram of trespass. 22And the priest expiated for him with the ram of the trespass, before Jehovah, for his sin which he sinned; and his sin which he sinned was forgiven to him.

23And when ye shall come into the land, and ye planted every tree of food, and ye made uncircumcised in its uncircumcision its fruits: three years it shall be to you uncircumcised: it shall not be eaten. 24And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy praises for Jehovah. 25And in the fifth year ye shall eat its fruits, to add to you its produce. I Jehovah your God.

26Ye shall not eat with the blood: ye shall not take auguries, and ye shall not practise magic. 27Ye shall not cut the extremities of your head, and thou shalt not destroy the extremities of thy beard. 28And ye shall not give an incision for the soul in your flesh, and a mark of stigma ye shall not give upon you: I Jehovah.

29Thou shalt not profane thy daughter to commit fornication: and the land commit fornication and the land was filled with wickedness. 30My Sabbaths shall ye watch, and ye shall be afraid of my holies: I Jehovah.

31Ye shall not turn to necromancers, and to wizards ye shall not seek, to be defiled by them: I Jehovah your God.

32From the face of gray hair thou shalt rise up, and thou shalt honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt be afraid of thy God: I Jehovah.

33And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not oppress him. 34As the native among you shall be to you the stranger sojourning with you; thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I Jehovah your God.

35Ye shall not do evil in judgment, in tribute, in weight, and in measure. 36Just balances, just stones, a just ephah, and a just hin shall be to you: I Jehovah your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt. 37And ye watched all my laws and all my judgments, and did them: Jehovah.


The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. Smith

Section Headings Courtesy Berean Bible

Leviticus 18
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