Leviticus 19 (New American Standard)

Idolatry Forbidden

1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying : 2 "Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel and say to them, '¹You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy. 3 'Every one of you ²shall reverence his mother and his father, and you shall keep ³My sabbaths ; ⁴I am the LORD your God. 4 'Do not turn to ⁵idols or make for yourselves molten ⁶gods ; I am the LORD your God. 5 'Now when you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted. 6 'It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, and the next day ; but what remains until the third day shall be burned with fire. 7 'So if it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an offense ; it will not be accepted. 8 'Everyone who eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned the holy thing of the LORD ; and that person shall be cut off from his people.

Sundry Laws

9 '⁷Now when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. 10 'Nor shall you glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard ; you shall leave them for the needy and for the stranger. I am the LORD your God. 11 '⁸You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, ⁹nor lie to one another. 12 '¹⁰You shall not swear falsely by My name, so as to ¹¹profane the name of your God ; I am the LORD. 13 '¹²You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. ¹³The wages of a hired man are not to remain with you all night until morning. 14 'You shall not curse a deaf man, nor ¹⁴place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall revere your God ; I am the LORD. 15 '¹⁵You shall do no injustice in judgment ; you shall not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly. 16 'You shall not go about as ¹⁶a slanderer among your people, and you are not to ^aact against the ^b17life of your neighbor ; I am the LORD. 17 'You ¹⁸shall not hate your ^cfellow countryman in your heart ; you ¹⁹may surely reprove your neighbor, but shall not incur sin because of him. 18 '²⁰You shall not take vengeance, ²¹nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but ²²you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD. 19 'You are to keep My statutes. You shall not breed together two kinds of your cattle ; ²³you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor wear a garment upon you of two kinds of material mixed together. 20 '²⁴Now if a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave acquired for another man, but who has in no way been redeemed nor given her freedom, there shall be punishment ; they shall not, however, be put to death, because she was not free. 21 'He shall bring his guilt offering to the LORD to the doorway of the tent of meeting, ²⁵a ram for a guilt offering. 22 'The priest shall also make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the LORD for his sin which he has committed, and the sin which he has committed will be forgiven him. 23 'When you enter the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as ^dforbidden. Three years it shall be ^eforbidden to you; it shall not be eaten. 24 'But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the LORD. 25 'In the fifth year you are to eat of its fruit, that its yield may increase for you; I am the LORD your God. 26 'You shall not eat anything ²⁶with the blood, nor practice ²⁷divination or soothsaying. 27 '²⁸You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard. 28 'You shall not make any cuts in your ^fbody for the ^gdead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD. 29 '²⁹Do not ^hprofane your daughter by making her a harlot, so that the land will not fall to harlotry and the land become full of lewdness. 30 'You shall ³⁰keep My sabbaths and ³¹revere My sanctuary ; I am the LORD. 31 'Do not turn to ⁱ³²mediums or spiritists ; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God. 32 '³³You shall rise up before the grayheaded and honor the ^jaged , and you shall revere your God ; I am the LORD. 33 '³⁴When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. 34 'The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and ³⁵you shall love him as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt ; I am the LORD your God. 35 '³⁶You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or capacity. 36 'You shall have ³⁷just balances, just weights, a just ^kephah, and a just ^lhin ; I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt. 37 'You shall thus observe all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them; I am the LORD.' "