Leviticus 19–20

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, ²Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, ^aYe shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy. ^3bYe shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and ^ckeep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. ⁴Turn ye not unto ^didols, ^enor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.

⁵And ^fif ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord, ye shall offer it ^gat your own will. ⁶It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow: and if ought remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire. ⁷And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is ^habominable; it shall not be accepted. ⁸Therefore every one that eateth it ⁱshall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the Lord: and ^kthat soul shall be cut off from among his people.

⁹And ^lwhen ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. ¹⁰And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the Lord your God. ^11mYe shall not steal, ⁿneither deal falsely, neither lie one to another. ¹²And ye shall not ^oswear by my name falsely, ^pneither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord. ¹³Thou shalt not ^qdefraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: ^rthe wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning. ¹⁴Thou shalt not ^scurse the deaf, ^tnor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt ^ufear thy God: I am the Lord. ^15wYe shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour. ^16xThou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou ^ystand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the Lord. ^17zThou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: ^athou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. ^18bThou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but ^cthou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.

¹⁹Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: ^dthou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: ^eneither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee. ²⁰And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman that is a bondmaid, betrothed to a 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. ²¹And ^fhe shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering. ²²And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the Lord for his sin which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him. ²³And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as ^guncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of. ²⁴But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the Lord withal. ²⁵And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the Lord your God.

^26hYe shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither ⁱshall ye use enchantment, nor ^kobserve times. ^27lYe shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. ²⁸Ye shall not make ^many cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord. ²⁹ⁿDo not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness. ^30oYe shall keep my sabbaths, and ^preverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord. ^31qRegard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God. ^32rThou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and ^shonour the face of the old man, and ^tfear thy God: I am the Lord. ³³And ^uif a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. ³⁴But ^xthe stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born amongst you, and ^ythou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. ³⁵Ye ^zshall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in ^ameteyard, in ^bweight, or in ^cmeasure. ^36dJust balances, just weights, a just ^eephah, and a just ^fhin, shall ye have: I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt. ³⁷Therefore ^gshall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the Lord.

XX.And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, ^2aAgain, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, ^bWhosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. ³And ^cI will set my face against that man, and ^dwill cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to ^edefile my sanctuary, and ^fto profane my holy name. ⁴And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and ^gkill him not: ⁵Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and ^dwill cut him off, and all that ^hgo a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people. ⁶And ⁱthe soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, ^kI will even set my face against that soul, and ^dwill cut him off from among his people. ^7lSanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the Lord your God. ^8mAnd ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: ⁿI am the Lord which sanctify you. ^9oFor every one that ^ocurseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; ^phis blood shall be upon him.

¹⁰And ^qthe man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. ^11rAnd the man that lieth with his father’s wife hath uncovered his father’s nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. ^12sAnd if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought ^tconfusion; their blood shall be upon them. ^13uIf a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. ^14xAnd if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you. ^15yAnd if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast. ¹⁶And if ^ya woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. ^17zAnd if a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is ^aa wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity. ^18bAnd if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her ^cfountain, and she hath uncovered the ^cfountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people. ^19dAnd thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister, nor of thy father’s sister: for he uncovereth ^ehis near kin: they shall bear their iniquity. ^20fAnd if a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife, he hath uncovered his uncle’s nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless. ^21gAnd if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.

²²Ye shall therefore keep all my ^hstatutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, ⁱspue you not out. ²³And ye shall not walk in ^kthe manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and ^ltherefore I abhorred them. ²⁴But I ^mhave said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land ⁿthat floweth with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God, ^owhich have separated you from other people. ²⁵Ye shall therefore ^pput difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: ^qand ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean. ²⁶And ye shall be holy unto me: ^rfor I the Lord am holy, and ^shave severed you from other people, that ye should be mine. ^27tA man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: ^uthey shall stone them with stones: ^xtheir blood shall be upon them.

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