19:2 Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them: You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.
19:3 You shall each revere your mother and father, and you shall keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
19:4 Do not turn to idols or make cast images for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.
19:5 When you offer a sacrifice of well-being to the Lord, offer it in such a way that it is acceptable in your behalf.
19:6 It shall be eaten on the same day you offer it, or on the next day; and anything left over until the third day shall be consumed in fire.
19:7 If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination; it will not be acceptable.
19:8 All who eat it shall be subject to punishment, because they have profaned what is holy to the Lord; and any such person shall be cut off from the people.
19:9 When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
19:10 You shall not strip your vineyard bare, or gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the alien: I am the Lord your God.
19:11 You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; and you shall not lie to one another.
19:12 And you shall not swear falsely by my name, profaning the name of your God: I am the Lord.
19:13 You shall not defraud your neighbour; you shall not steal; and you shall not keep for yourself the wages of a labourer until morning.
19:14 You shall not revile the deaf or put a stumbling-block before the blind; you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.
19:15 You shall not render an unjust judgement; you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great: with justice you shall judge your neighbour.
19:16 You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not profit by the blood of your neighbour: I am the Lord.
19:17 You shall not hate in your heart anyone of your kin; you shall reprove your neighbour, or you will incur guilt yourself.
19:18 You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbour as yourself: I am the Lord.
19:19 You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your animals breed with a different kind; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; nor shall you put on a garment made of two different materials.
19:20 If a man has sexual relations with a woman who is a slave, designated for another man but not ransomed or given her freedom, an inquiry shall be held. They shall not be put to death, since she has not been freed;
19:21 but he shall bring a guilt-offering for himself to the Lord, at the entrance of the tent of meeting, a ram as guilt-offering.
19:22 And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of guilt-offering before the Lord for his sin that he committed; and the sin he committed shall be forgiven him.
19:23 When you come into the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall regard their fruit as forbidden; for three years it shall be forbidden to you; it must not be eaten.
19:24 In the fourth year all their fruit shall be set apart for rejoicing in the Lord.
19:25 But in the fifth year you may eat of their fruit, that their yield may be increased for you: I am the Lord your God.
19:26 You shall not eat anything with its blood. You shall not practise augury or witchcraft.
19:27 You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard.
19:28 You shall not make any gashes in your flesh for the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
19:29 Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land may not become prostituted and full of depravity.
19:30 You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
19:31 Do not turn to mediums or wizards; do not seek them out, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.
19:32 You shall rise before the aged, and defer to the old; and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.
19:33 When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien.
19:34 The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
19:35 You shall not cheat in measuring length, weight, or quantity.
19:36 You shall have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
19:37 You shall keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and observe them: I am the Lord.
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