Leviticus 19

Thomson^{(i) 1} Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² Speak to the congregation of the children of Israel; and thon shalt say unto them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. ³ Let every one reverence his father and his mother. And you shall keep my sabbaths. I am the Lord your God; ⁴ you shall not follow idols, nor make for yourselves molten gods. I the Lord am your God; ⁵ therefore when you offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord, you shall offer it in an acceptable manner. ⁶ On the day you offer such a sacrifice it shall be eaten; or on the next day; and if any of it be left till the third day, it shall be burned with fire. ⁷ And if it be eaten on the third day, it is as if it had not been offered. ⁸ It will not be accepted. He who eateth it will contract guilt, because he hath profaned the holy things of the Lord. The persons therefore who eat it shall be cut off from among their people. ⁹ And when you gather in the harvest of your land, you shall not make a com pleat ingathering of the harvest of your field, nor gather up the gleanings of thy harvest; ¹⁰ nor shalt thou go over thy vineyard a second time, nor gather the straggling clusters of thy vineyard. Thou shalt leave them for the poor, and for the stranger. I am the Lord your God; ¹¹ you shall not steal; you shall not lie; nor shall any one accuse his brother for trifles, ¹² you shall not swear by my name to a falsehood; nor profane the holy name of your God. I am the Lord your God, ¹³ thou shalt nut injure thy neighbour, nor commit rapine; nor shall the wages of a hireling remain with thee till the morning. ¹⁴ Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor lay a stumbling block before the blind, but shalt fear the Lord thy God. I am the Lord your God; ¹⁵ you shall not do an unjust thing in the execution of justice: thou shalt not respect the face of the poor, nor revere the face of the mighty. With righteousness thou shalt judge thy neighbour. ¹⁶ Thou shalt not go about with deceit among thy nation, nor set thyself against the blood of thy neighbour. I am the Lord your God; ¹⁷ thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart. With rebuke thou shalt correct thy neighbour, and not contract guilt on his account; ¹⁸ but let not thy hand take vengeance. Thou shalt not bear a grudge against the children of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. I am the Lord; ¹⁹ you shall keep my law. Thou shalt not let the cattle gender with one of another kind, nor plant thy vineyard with different sorts of seed; nor put on unscoured, a woven garment made of flax and wool. ²⁰ If any man lie carnally with a woman, and she be a servant betrothed to a man, and hath not been redeemed, nor had her freedom granted her, they shall be chastised, but shall not be put to death, because she was not set free. ²¹ And for his trespass against the Lord, he shall bring to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, the ram of 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 hath committed; and the sin which he hath committed shall be forgiven him. ²³ Now .when you come into the land which the Lord your God giveth you, you may plant all sorts of trees for food; but you must purge away their impurity. The fruit thereof shall be three years unclean to you, and shall not be eaten: ²⁴ and in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be hallowed, to praise the Lord; ²⁵ and in the fifth year, you may eat the fruit. The products thereof will be an additional supply to you. I am the Lord your God; ²⁶ you must not eat on the mountains, nor practise divination, nor augury by birds. ²⁷ You shall not make a rounding of the hair of your head, nor disfigure the appearance of your beard. ²⁸ You shall not make gashes in your body for the dead, nor any fixed marks on you. I am the Lord your God; ²⁹ thou shalt not prostitute thy daughter to cause her to commit whoredom, that the country may not fall into whoredom; and that the land may not be filled with iniquity. ³⁰ You shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my holy things. I am the Lord your God: ³¹ you shall not go after belly speakers, nor attach yourselves to sorcerers to be polluted by them. I am the Lord your God: ³² you shall rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of an elder, and fear thy God. I am the Lord your God; ³³ if any stranger come among you in your land, you shall not afflict him. ³⁴ The stranger who cometh to you, shall be as one born among you; and thou shalt love him as thyself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God; ³⁵ you shall not do injustice in the exercise of judgment, nor in measures, nor in weights, nor in balances. ³⁶ You shall have among you just balances, just weights and a just measure. I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, ³⁷ therefore you shall keep all my law and all my statutes and do them. I am the Lord your God.