Leviticus 18–20

¹And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ²‘Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, I am Jehovah your God; ³according to the work of the land of Egypt in which ye have dwelt ye do not, and according to the work of the land of Canaan whither I am bringing you in, ye do not, and in their statutes ye walk not.

⁴‘My judgments ye do, and My statutes ye keep, to walk in them; I am Jehovah your God; ⁵and ye have kept My statutes and My judgments which man doth and liveth in them; I am Jehovah.

⁶‘None of you unto any relation of his flesh doth draw near to uncover nakedness; I am Jehovah.

⁷‘The nakedness of thy father and the nakedness of thy mother thou dost not uncover, she is thy mother; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.

⁸‘The nakedness of the wife of thy father thou dost not uncover; it is the nakedness of thy father.

⁹‘The nakedness of thy sister, daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, born at home or born without; thou dost not uncover their nakedness.

¹⁰‘The nakedness of thy son’s daughter, or of thy daughter’s daughter: thou dost not uncover their nakedness; for theirs is thy nakedness.

¹¹‘The nakedness of a daughter of thy father’s wife, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.

¹²‘The nakedness of a sister of thy father thou dost not uncover; she is a relation of thy father.

¹³‘The nakedness of thy mother’s sister thou dost not uncover; for she is thy mother’s relation.

¹⁴‘The nakedness of thy father’s brother thou dost not uncover; unto his wife thou dost not draw near; she is thine aunt.

¹⁵‘The nakedness of thy daughter-in-law thou dost not uncover; she is thy son’s wife; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.

¹⁶‘The nakedness of thy brother’s wife thou dost not uncover; it is thy brother’s nakedness.

¹⁷‘The nakedness of a woman and her daughter thou dost not uncover; her son’s daughter, and her daughter’s daughter thou dost not take to uncover her nakedness; they are her relations; it is wickedness.

¹⁸‘And a woman unto another thou dost not take, to be an adversary, to uncover her nakedness beside her, in her life.

¹⁹‘And unto a woman in the separation of her uncleanness thou dost not draw near to uncover her nakedness.

²⁰‘And unto the wife of thy fellow thou dost not give thy seed of copulation, for uncleanness with her.

²¹‘And of thy seed thou dost not give to pass over to the Molech; nor dost thou pollute the name of thy God; I am Jehovah.

²²‘And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it is.

²³‘And with any beast thou dost not give thy copulation, for uncleanness with it; and a woman doth not stand before a beast to lie down with it; confusion it is.

²⁴‘Ye are not defiled with all these, for with all these have the nations been defiled which I am sending away from before you; ²⁵and the land is defiled, and I charge its iniquity upon it, and the land vomiteth out its inhabitants: ²⁶and ye—ye have kept My statutes and My judgments, and do not any of all these abominations, the native and the sojourner who is sojourning in your midst, ²⁷(for all these abominations have the men of the land done who are before you, and the land is defiled), ²⁸and the land doth not vomit you out in your defiling it, as it hath vomited out the nation which is before you; ²⁹for any one who doth any of all these abominations—even the persons who are doing so, have been cut off from the midst of their people; ³⁰and ye have kept My charge, so as not to do any of the abominable statutes which have been done before you, and ye do not defile yourselves with them; I am Jehovah your God.’

Chapter 19

¹And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ²‘Speak unto all the company of the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, Ye are holy, for holy am I, Jehovah, your God.

³‘Each his mother and his father ye do fear, and My sabbaths ye do keep; I am Jehovah your God.

⁴‘Ye do not turn unto the idols, and a molten god ye do not make to yourselves; I am Jehovah your God.

⁵‘And when ye sacrifice a sacrifice of peace-offerings to Jehovah, at your pleasure ye do sacrifice it; ⁶in the day of your sacrificing it is eaten, and on the morrow, and that which is left unto the third day with fire is burnt, ⁷and if it be really eaten on the third day, it is an abomination, it is not pleasing, ⁸and he who is eating it his iniquity doth bear, for the holy thing of Jehovah he hath polluted, and that person hath been cut off from his people.

⁹‘And in your reaping the harvest of your land ye do not completely reap the corner of thy field, and the gleaning of thy harvest thou dost not gather, ¹⁰and thy vineyard thou dost not glean, even the omitted part of thy vineyard thou dost not gather, to the poor and to the sojourner thou dost leave them; I am Jehovah your God.

¹¹‘Ye do not steal, nor feign, nor lie one against his fellow.

¹²‘And ye do not swear by My name to falsehood, or thou hast polluted the name of thy God; I am Jehovah.

¹³‘Thou dost not oppress thy neighbour, nor take plunder; the wages of the hireling doth not remain with thee till morning.

¹⁴‘Thou dost not revile the deaf; and before the blind thou dost not put a stumbling block; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; I am Jehovah.

¹⁵‘Ye do not do perversity in judgment; thou dost not lift up the face of the poor, nor honour the face of the great; in righteousness thou dost judge thy fellow.

¹⁶‘Thou dost not go slandering among thy people; thou dost not stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I am Jehovah.

¹⁷‘Thou dost not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou dost certainly reprove thy fellow, and not suffer sin on him.

¹⁸‘Thou dost not take vengeance, nor watch the sons of thy people; and thou hast had love to thy neighbour as thyself; I am Jehovah.

¹⁹‘My statutes ye do keep: thy cattle thou dost not cause to gender with diverse kinds; thy field thou dost not sow with diverse kinds, and a garment of diverse kinds, shaatnez, doth not go up upon thee.

²⁰‘And when a man lieth with a woman with seed of copulation, and she a maid-servant, betrothed to a man, and not really ransomed, or freedom hath not been given to her, an investigation there is; they are not put to death, for she is not free.

²¹‘And he hath brought in his guilt-offering to Jehovah, unto the opening of the tent of meeting, a ram for a guilt-offering, ²²and the priest hath made atonement for him with the ram of the guilt-offering before Jehovah, for his sin which he hath sinned, and it hath been forgiven him because of his sin which he hath sinned.

²³‘And when ye come in unto the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then ye have reckoned as uncircumcised its fruit, three years it is to you uncircumcised, it is not eaten, ²⁴and in the fourth year all its fruit is holy—praises for Jehovah. ²⁵And in the fifth year ye do eat its fruit—to add to you its increase; I am Jehovah your God.

²⁶‘Ye do not eat with the blood; ye do not enchant, nor observe clouds.

²⁷‘Ye do not round the corner of your head, nor destroy the corner of thy beard.

²⁸‘And a cutting for the soul ye do not put in your flesh; and a writing, a cross-mark, ye do not put on you; I am Jehovah.

²⁹‘Thou dost not pollute thy daughter to cause her to go a-whoring, that the land go not a-whoring, and the land hath been full of wickedness.

³⁰‘My sabbaths ye do keep, and My sanctuary ye do reverence; I am Jehovah.

³¹‘Ye do not turn unto those having familiar spirits; and unto wizards ye do not seek, for uncleanness by them; I am Jehovah your God.

³²‘At the presence of grey hairs thou dost rise up, and thou hast honoured the presence of an old man, and hast been afraid of thy God; I am Jehovah.

³³‘And when a sojourner sojourneth with thee in your land, thou dost not oppress him; ³⁴as a native among you is the sojourner to you who is sojourning with you, and thou hast had love to him as to thyself, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God.

³⁵‘Ye do not do perversity in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in liquid measure; ³⁶righteous balances, righteous weights, a righteous ephah, and a righteous hin ye have; I am Jehovah your God, who hath brought you out from the land of Egypt; ³⁷and ye have observed all my statutes, and all my judgments, and have done them; I am Jehovah.’

Chapter 20

¹And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ²‘And unto the sons of Israel thou dost say, Any man of the sons of Israel, and of the sojourners who is sojourning in Israel, who giveth of his seed to the Molech, is certainly put to death; the people of the land do stone him with stones; ³and I—I set My face against that man, and have cut him off from the midst of his people, for of his seed he hath given to the Molech, so as to defile My sanctuary, and to pollute My holy name.

⁴‘And if the people of the land really hide their eyes from that man, in his giving of his seed to the Molech, so as not to put him to death, ⁵then I have set My face against that man, and against his family, and have cut him off, and all who are going a-whoring after him, even going a-whoring after the Molech, from the midst of their people.

⁶‘And the person who turneth unto those having familiar spirits, and unto the wizards, to go a-whoring after them, I have even set My face against that person, and cut him off from the midst of his people.

⁷‘And ye have sanctified yourselves, and ye have been holy, for I am Jehovah your God; ⁸and ye have kept My statutes and have done them; I am Jehovah, sanctifying you.

⁹‘For any man who revileth his father and his mother is certainly put to death; his father and his mother he hath reviled: his blood is on him.

¹⁰‘And a man who committeth adultery with a man’s wife—who committeth adultery with the wife of his neighbour—the adulterer and the adulteress are surely put to death.

¹¹‘And a man who lieth with his father’s wife—the nakedness of his father he hath uncovered—both of them are certainly put to death; their blood is on them.

¹²‘And a man who lieth with his daughter-in-law—both of them are…