1And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
2“Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel and say to them: You shall be holy, for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.
3Each of you shall fear his mother and his father, and you shall keep my sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
4Do not turn to the idols, and do not make for yourselves cast gods. I am Yahweh your God.
5When you sacrifice a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.
6It shall be eaten on the day of your sacrifice and on the next day, but what remains until the third day shall be burned in the fire.
7If it is indeed eaten on the third day, it is foul; it will not be accepted.
8And the one who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned what is holy to Yahweh; that person shall be cut off from his people.
9When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not finish reaping the edge of your field, and you shall not gather the gleanings of your harvest.
10You shall not strip your vineyard bare, and you shall not gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner. I am Yahweh your God.
11You shall not steal, and you shall not deal deceptively, and you shall not lie to one another.
12And you shall not swear falsely by my name, so profaning the name of your God. I am Yahweh.
13You shall not oppress your neighbor, and you shall not rob him. The wages of a hired worker shall not remain with you overnight until morning.
14You shall not curse a deaf person, and before a blind person you shall not put a stumbling block; but you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.
15You shall not do injustice in judgment; you shall not favor the face of the poor, and you shall not defer to 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 Yahweh.
17You shall not hate your brother in your heart; you shall surely reprove your neighbor, and you shall not bear sin because of him.
18You shall not take vengeance, and you shall not bear a grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
19You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your livestock breed with a different kind; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; and a garment of two kinds of material mixed together shall not come upon you.
20If a man lies with a woman by emission of seed, and she is a slave woman assigned to another man but not at all redeemed nor given her freedom, there shall be an inquiry; they shall not be put to death, because she was not freed.
21And he shall bring his guilt offering to Yahweh, to the entrance of the tent of meeting—a ram as a guilt offering.
22And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before Yahweh for his sin that he committed, and he shall be forgiven for his sin that he committed.
23When you come into the land and plant any tree for food, you shall regard its fruit as forbidden; for three years it shall be forbidden to you—it shall not be eaten.
24And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to Yahweh.
25And in the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, so that it may increase its yield for you. I am Yahweh your God.
26You shall not eat anything 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.
28You shall not make a gash in your flesh for the dead, and you shall not put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am Yahweh.
29Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, lest the land fall into prostitution and the land be filled with depravity.
30You shall keep my sabbaths and revere my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.
31Do not turn to the mediums or to the spiritists; do not seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am Yahweh your God.
32Before gray hair you shall rise, and you shall honor the presence of an elder, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.
33And when a sojourner sojourns with you in your land, you shall not oppress him.
34The sojourner who sojourns with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
35You shall not do injustice in judgment, in measure, in weight, or in quantity.
36Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin you shall have. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
37So you shall keep all my statutes and all my judgments, and do them. I am Yahweh.
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