Leviticus 19

Ritual and Moral Holiness

1The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2 # 1 Pet 1.16 “Speak to all the congregation of the Israelites and say to them: You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. 3#Ex 20.8, 12; Lev 11.44You shall each revere your mother and father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. 4#Ex 20.23; 34.17; Lev 26.1; Ps 96.5Do not turn to idols or make cast images for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.

5“When you offer a sacrifice of well-being to the Lord, offer it in such a way that it is acceptable on your behalf. 6It 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. 7If any of it is eaten on the third day, it is an abomination; it will not be acceptable. 8All 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.

9 # Lev 23.22; Deut 24.20–22 “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. 10You 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.

11 # Ex 20.15; Lev 6.2; Eph 4.25; Col 3.9 “You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; and you shall not lie to one another. 12#Ex 20.7; Lev 18.21And you shall not swear falsely by my name, profaning the name of your God: I am the Lord.

13 # Ex 22.7–15, 21–27; Deut 24.15; Jas 5.4 “You shall not defraud your neighbor; you shall not steal; and you shall not keep for yourself the wages of a laborer until morning. 14#Deut 27.18You shall not revile the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind; you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

15 # Ex 23.6; Deut 1.17 “You shall not render an unjust judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great: with justice you shall judge your neighbor. 16#Ex 23.7; Ps 15.3; Ezek 22.9You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand idly by when the blood#19.16 Heb stand against the blood of your neighbor is at stake: I am the Lord.

17 # Lk 17.3; Gal 6.1; 1 Jn 2.9, 11; 3.15 “You shall not hate in your heart anyone of your kin; you shall reprove your neighbor, or you will incur guilt yourself. 18#Ps 103.9; Mt 19.19; Mk 12.31; Rom 12.19; 13.9You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

19 # Deut 22.9, 11 “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.

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, 21#Lev 5.15but he shall bring a guilt offering for himself to the Lord, at the entrance of the tent of meeting, a ram as guilt offering. 22And 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.

23“When you come into the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall regard their fruit as forbidden;#19.23 Heb as their uncircumcision three years it shall be forbidden#19.23 Heb uncircumcision to you; it must not be eaten. 24#Deut 12.17, 18; Prov 3.9In the fourth year all their fruit shall be set apart for rejoicing in the Lord. 25But in the fifth year you may eat of their fruit, that their yield may be increased for you: I am the Lord your God.

26 # Lev 17.10; Deut 18.10 “You shall not eat anything with its blood. You shall not practice augury or witchcraft. 27#Lev 21.5You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard. 28#Lev 21.5You shall not make any gashes in your flesh for the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the Lord.

29 # Deut 23.17 “Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, that the land not become prostituted and full of depravity. 30#v 3; Lev 26.2You shall keep my Sabbaths and revere my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

31 # Lev 20.6, 27; Deut 18.10, 11 “Do not turn to mediums and spiritualists; do not seek them out, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.

32“You shall rise before the aged and defer to the old, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

33 # Ex 22.21 “When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien. 34#Ex 12.48, 49; Deut 10.19The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the native-born among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

35“You shall not cheat in measuring length, weight, or quantity. 36You 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. 37You shall keep all my statutes and all my ordinances and observe them: I am the Lord.”

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