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Leviticus

Holiness in Everyday Life

Leviticus 19:1-37
1The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel and say to them: You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy. 3Each man shall fear his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God. 4Do not turn to the idols, and do not make gods of cast metal for yourselves. I am the LORD your God. 5When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, you shall offer 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 with fire. 7If it is eaten on the third day, it is refuse; it shall not be accepted. 8Whoever eats it shall bear his iniquity, for he has profaned the holiness of the LORD; that soul shall be cut off from her people. 9When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not finish the side of your field to reap, and you shall not gather the gleaning of your harvest. 10You shall not glean your vineyard, and you shall not gather the broken grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the afflicted and for the sojourner. I am the LORD your God. 11You shall not steal, and you shall not deal falsely, and you shall not lie to one another. 12You shall not swear by my name to deception, and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD. 13You shall not oppress your neighbor, and you shall not plunder; you shall not let the wages of a hired worker lodge with you until morning. 14You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD. 15You shall not render unjust judgments; you shall not show partiality to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor. 16You shall not go about slandering your people, nor shall you stand against the blood of your neighbor. I am the LORD. 17You shall not hate your brother in your heart; you shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and you shall not bear sin because of him. 18You shall not avenge, and you shall not keep a grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD. 19You shall keep my statutes: you shall not mate your animal with a mixture; you shall not sow your field with a mixture; and a garment of mixture, mixed stuff, shall not come upon you. 20If a man lies with a woman with an emission of seed, and she is a maidservant betrothed to a man, and she has not been ransomed or freedom has not been given to her, there shall be punishment; they shall not be put to death, because she was not freed. 21He shall bring his guilt offering to the LORD, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, a ram for a guilt offering. 22The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the LORD for the sin that he sinned, and he shall be forgiven for the sin that he sinned. 23When you come into the land and plant any tree for food, you shall treat its fruit as uncircumcised; for three years it shall be uncircumcised to you and shall not be eaten. 24In the fourth year all its fruit shall be holiness, praise offerings to the LORD. 25In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, to add its produce to you. I am the LORD your God. 26You shall not eat upon the blood. You shall not practice divination or soothsaying. 27You shall not round the side of your head, and you shall not ruin the side of your beard. 28You shall not give an incision for the soul in your flesh, and you shall not put an imprint, an incision, on yourselves. I am the LORD. 29Do not profane your daughter by making her fornicate, lest the land fornicate and the land be filled with wickedness. 30You shall keep my Sabbaths, and you shall fear my sanctuary. I am the LORD. 31Do not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God. 32You shall rise before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am the LORD. 33When 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-born; you shall love him as yourself, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God. 35You shall not render unjust judgment in measure, in weight, or in capacity. 36Balances of righteousness, stones of righteousness, an ephah of righteousness, and a hin of righteousness shall be to you. I am the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt. 37You shall keep all my statutes and all my judgments and do them. I am the LORD.
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