Leviticus 19

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying: ² "Speak to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel and say to them: Holy shall you become, for I am holy, Yahweh your Elohim. ³ Each of you shall fear his mother and his father, and observe My sabbaths: I, Yahweh, am your Elohim. ⁴ Do not turn around to the forbidden idols; and molten elohim you shall not make for yourselves: I, Yahweh, am your Elohim. ⁵ When you sacrifice a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, you should sacrifice it for acceptance on your behalf. ⁶ On the day of your sacrifice shall it be eaten or on the morrow, and what is left until the third day shall be burned with fire. ⁷ Yet if it be eaten, yea eaten on the third day, it is vile; it shall not be accepted. ⁸ Its eater shall bear his depravity, for what is holy to Yahweh has he profaned; hence that soul will be cut off from his kinsmen. ⁹ When you reap the harvest of your land you shall not finish the edges of your field in reaping, and the gleaning of your harvest you shall not glean. ¹⁰ Also your vineyard you shall not clean glean, and the loose berries of your vineyard you shall not glean; you shall forsake them for the humble and for the sojourner: I, Yahweh, am your Elohim. ¹¹ You shall not steal nor dissimulate nor deal falsely, each one with his companion. ¹² And you shall not swear by My name falsely and so profane the name of your Elohim: I am Yahweh. ¹³ You shall not extort from your associate, nor shall you pillage. The wage of a hireling shall not lodge with you until morning. ¹⁴ You shall not maledict the deaf, and before the blind you shall not put a stumbling block. You will fear your Elohim: I am Yahweh. ¹⁵ You shall not do iniquity in judgment; you shall not lift up the face of the poor nor honor the face of the great. In righteousness shall you judge your companion. ¹⁶ You shall not go about as a defamer among your kinsmen; you shall not stand against the blood of your associate: I am Yahweh. ¹⁷ You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall admonish, yea admonish your companion so that you may not bear sin with him. ¹⁸ You shall not avenge nor shall you be resentful against the sons of your people. You will love your associate as yourself: I am Yahweh. ¹⁹ My statutes shall you observe: your beast you shall not cause to copulate dissimilarly; your field you shall not sow dissimilarly, and a garment dissimilarly made of linsey-woolsey shall not come up on you. ²⁰ In case a man who lies with a woman has an emission of semen when she is a bondmaid designated for another man, yet has not been ransomed, yea ransomed nor freedom given to her, a distinction shall there be: they shall not be put to death since she was not freed. ²¹ He will bring his guilt offering to Yahweh at the opening of the tent of appointment: a ram as a guilt offering. ²² Then the priest will make a propitiatory shelter over him with the ram of the guilt offering before Yahweh, for his sin with which he has sinned, and his sin with which he has sinned will be pardoned him. ²³ When you shall come into the land and you plant any tree for food, then you will regard its foreskin as uncircumcised; that is, its fruit, for three years shall it be as uncircumcised to you. It shall not be eaten. ²⁴ Yet in the fourth year all its fruit shall become holy, as praise offerings to Yahweh. ²⁵ And in the fifth year shall you eat its fruit so as to increase its yield to you still more: I, Yahweh, am your Elohim. ²⁶ You shall not eat on the mountains. You shall not augur nor consult clouds. ²⁷ You shall not round off the edge of your head's hair nor ruin the edge of your beard. ²⁸ You shall not put a laceration in your flesh for a deceased soul; you shall not put a tattoo writing on yourself: I, Yahweh, am your Elohim. ²⁹ Do not profane your daughter to make her a cult-prostitute that the land may not prostitute itself and the land be full of lewdness. ³⁰ Instead, My sabbaths shall you observe, and My sanctuary shall you fear: I am Yahweh. ³¹ Do not countenance mediums and wizards; do not seek them out to be defiled by them: I, Yahweh am your Elohim. ³² In the presence of the greyhaired shall you rise and honor the face of the old. You will fear your Elohim: I am Yahweh. ³³ When a sojourner sojourns with you in your land, you shall not tyrannize over him. ³⁴ As a native among you shall the sojourner sojourning with you come to be to you, and you will love him as yourself, for sojourners were you in the land of Egypt: I, Yahweh, am your Elohim. ³⁵ You shall not do iniquity in judgment of standards in measure, in weight or in quantity. ³⁶ Just scales, just stone weights, a just ephah and a just hin shall you come to have: I, Yahweh, am your Elohim Who brought you forth from the land of Egypt. ³⁷ Hence you will observe all My statutes and all My judgments and do them: I am Yahweh."