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Leviticus 19

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1And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,Select Leviticus 19:1

2Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them, You shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy. ¶Select Leviticus 19:2

3You shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God. ¶Select Leviticus 19:3

4Turn you not to idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God. ¶Select Leviticus 19:4

5And if you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, you shall offer it at your own will.Select Leviticus 19:5

6It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, and on the morrow: and if any remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire.Select Leviticus 19:6

7And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted.Select Leviticus 19:7

8Therefore every one that eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. ¶Select Leviticus 19:8

9And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.Select Leviticus 19:9

10And you shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather every grape of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God. ¶Select Leviticus 19:10

11You shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another. ¶Select Leviticus 19:11

12And you shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD. ¶Select Leviticus 19:12

13You shall not defraud your neighbor, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with you all night until the morning. ¶Select Leviticus 19:13

14You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but shall fear your God: I am the LORD. ¶Select Leviticus 19:14

15You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: you shall not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor. ¶Select Leviticus 19:15

16You shall not go up and down as a talebearer among your people: neither shall you stand against the blood of your neighbor; I am the LORD. ¶Select Leviticus 19:16

17You shall not hate your brother in your heart: you shall in any wise rebuke your neighbor, and not suffer sin on him. ¶Select Leviticus 19:17

18You shall not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD. ¶Select Leviticus 19:18

19You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle engender with a diverse kind: you shall not sow your field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woolen come on you. ¶Select Leviticus 19:19

20And whoever lies carnally with a woman, that is a female slave, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.Select Leviticus 19:20

21And he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering.Select Leviticus 19:21

22And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he has done: and the sin which he has done shall be forgiven him. ¶Select Leviticus 19:22

23And when you shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then you shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised to you: it shall not be eaten of.Select Leviticus 19:23

24But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD with.Select Leviticus 19:24

25And in the fifth year shall you eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield to you the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God. ¶Select Leviticus 19:25

26You shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall you use enchantment, nor observe times.Select Leviticus 19:26

27You shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shall you mar the corners of your beard.Select Leviticus 19:27

28You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks on you: I am the LORD. ¶Select Leviticus 19:28

29Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness. ¶Select Leviticus 19:29

30You shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. ¶Select Leviticus 19:30

31Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God. ¶Select Leviticus 19:31

32You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear your God: I am the LORD. ¶Select Leviticus 19:32

33And if a stranger sojourn with you in your land, you shall not vex him.Select Leviticus 19:33

34But the stranger that dwells with you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. ¶Select Leviticus 19:34

35You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in length, in weight, or in measure.Select Leviticus 19:35

36Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall you have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.Select Leviticus 19:36

37Therefore shall you observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.Select Leviticus 19:37

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