19The LORD also said to Moses,H3068H1696H4872H559 2"Give the following instructions to the entire community of Israel. You must be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.H1696H5712H1121H3478H559H6918H3068H430H6918 3"Each of you must show great respect for your mother and father, and you must always observe my Sabbath days of rest. I am the LORD your God.H3372H376H517H1H8104H7676H3068H430 4"Do not put your trust in idols or make metal images of gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.H6437H457H6213H4541H430H3068H430 5"When you sacrifice a peace offering to the LORD, offer it properly so you will be accepted by God.H2076H2077H8002H3068H2076H7522 6The sacrifice must be eaten on the same day you offer it or on the next day. Whatever is left over until the third day must be completely burned up.H398H3117H2077H4283H3498H7992H3117H8313H784 7If any of the sacrifice is eaten on the third day, it will be contaminated, and I will not accept it.H398H398H7992H3117H6292H7521 8Anyone who eats it on the third day will be punished for defiling what is holy to the LORD and will be cut off from the community.H398H5375H5771H2490H6944H3068H5315H3772H5971 9"When you harvest the crops of your land, do not harvest the grain along the edges of your fields, and do not pick up what the harvesters drop.H7114H7105H776H3615H6285H7704H3950H3951H7105 10It is the same with your grape crop—do not strip every last bunch of grapes from the vines, and do not pick up the grapes that fall to the ground. Leave them for the poor and the foreigners living among you. I am the LORD your God.H5953H3754H3950H6528H3754H5800H6041H1616H3068H430 11"Do not steal. "Do not deceive or cheat one another.H1589H3584H8266H376H5997 12"Do not bring shame on the name of your God by using it to swear falsely. I am the LORD.H7650H8034H8267H2490H8034H430H3068 13"Do not defraud or rob your neighbor. "Do not make your hired workers wait until the next day to receive their pay.H6231H7453H1497H6468H7916H3885H1242 14"Do not insult the deaf or cause the blind to stumble. You must fear your God; I am the LORD.H7043H2795H5414H4383H6440H5787H3372H430H3068 15"Do not twist justice in legal matters by favoring the poor or being partial to the rich and powerful. Always judge people fairly.H6213H5766H4941H5375H6440H1800H1921H6440H1419H6664H8199H5997 16"Do not spread slanderous gossip among your people. "Do not stand idly by when your neighbor's life is threatened. I am the LORD.H3212H7400H5971H5975H1818H7453H3068 17"Do not nurse hatred in your heart for any of your relatives. Confront people directly so you will not be held guilty for their sin.H8130H251H3824H3198H3198H5997H5375H2399 18"Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against a fellow Israelite, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.H5358H5201H1121H5971H157H7453H3644H3068 19"You must obey all my decrees. "Do not mate two different kinds of animals. Do not plant your field with two different kinds of seed. Do not wear clothing woven from two different kinds of thread.H8104H2708H929H7250H3610H2232H7704H3610H899H3610H8162H5927 20"If a man has sex with a slave girl whose freedom has never been purchased but who is committed to become another man's wife, he must pay full compensation to her master. But since she is not a free woman, neither the man nor the woman will be put to death.H376H7901H2233H7902H802H8198H2778H376H6299H6299H2668H5414H1244H4191H2666 21The man, however, must bring a ram as a guilt offering and present it to the LORD at the entrance of the Tabernacle.H935H817H3068H6607H168H4150H352H817 22The priest will then purify him before the LORD with the ram of the guilt offering, and the man's sin will be forgiven.H3548H3722H352H817H6440H3068H2403H2398H2403H2398H5545 23"When you enter the land and plant fruit trees, leave the fruit unharvested for the first three years and consider it forbidden. Do not eat it.H935H776H5193H6086H3978H6188H6529H6188H6190H7969H8141H6189H398 24In the fourth year the entire crop must be consecrated to the LORD as a celebration of praise.H7243H8141H6529H6944H1974H3068 25Finally, in the fifth year you may eat the fruit. If you follow this pattern, your harvest will increase. I am the LORD your God.H2549H8141H398H6529H3254H8393H3068H430 26"Do not eat meat that has not been drained of its blood. "Do not practice fortune-telling or witchcraft.H398H1818H5172H6049 27"Do not trim off the hair on your temples or trim your beards.H5362H6285H7218H7843H6285H2206 28"Do not cut your bodies for the dead, and do not mark your skin with tattoos. I am the LORD.H5414H3793H8296H1320H5315H5414H7085H3068 29"Do not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be filled with prostitution and wickedness.H2490H1323H2181H776H2181H776H4390H2154 30"Keep my Sabbath days of rest, and show reverence toward my sanctuary. I am the LORD.H8104H7676H3372H4720H3068 31"Do not defile yourselves by turning to mediums or to those who consult the spirits of the dead. I am the LORD your God.H6437H178H1245H3049H2930H3068H430 32"Stand up in the presence of the elderly, and show respect for the aged. Fear your God. I am the LORD.H6965H6440H7872H1921H6440H2205H3372H430H3068 33"Do not take advantage of foreigners who live among you in your land.H1616H1481H776H3238 34Treat them like native-born Israelites, and love them as you love yourself. Remember that you were once foreigners living in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.H1616H1481H249H157H1616H776H4714H3068H430 35"Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight, or volume.H6213H5766H4941H4060H4948H4884 36Your scales and weights must be accurate. Your containers for measuring dry materials or liquids must be accurate. I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.H6664H3976H6664H68H6664H374H6664H1969H3068H430H3318H776H4714 37"You must be careful to keep all of my decrees and regulations by putting them into practice. I am the LORD."H8104H2708H4941H6213H3068
20The LORD said to Moses,H3068H1696H4872H5592"Give the people of Israel these instructions, which apply both to native Israelites and to the foreigners living in Israel. "If any of them offer their children as a sacrifice to Molech, they must be put to death. The people of the community must stone them to death.H559H1121H3478H376H1121H3478H1616H1481H3478H5414H2233H4432H4191H4191H5971H776H7275H683I myself will turn against them and cut them off from the community, because they have defiled my sanctuary and brought shame on my holy name by offering their children to Molech.H5414H6440H376H3772H7130H5971H5414H2233H4432H2930H4720H2490H6944H80344And if the people of the community ignore those who offer their children to Molech and refuse to execute them,H5971H776H5956H5956H5869H376H5414H2233H4432H4191H11155I myself will turn against them and their families and will cut them off from the community. This will happen to all who commit spiritual prostitution by worshiping Molech.H7760H6440H376H4940H3772H2181H310H2181H4432H7130H59716"I will also turn against those who commit spiritual prostitution by putting their trust in mediums or in those who consult the spirits of the dead. I will cut them off from the community.H5315H6437H413H178H310H3049H2181H310H5414H6440H5315H3772H7130H59717So set yourselves apart to be holy, for I am the LORD your God.H6942H6918H3068H4308Keep all my decrees by putting them into practice, for I am the LORD who makes you holy.H8104H2708H6213H3068H69429"Anyone who dishonors father or mother must be put to death. Such a person is guilty of a capital offense.H376H376H7043H1H517H4191H4191H7043H1H517H181810"If a man commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, both the man and the woman who have committed adultery must be put to death.H376H5003H376H802H5003H7453H802H5003H5003H4191H419111"If a man violates his father by having sex with one of his father's wives, both the man and the woman must be put to death, for they are guilty of a capital offense.H376H7901H1H802H1540H1H6172H8147H4191H4191H181812"If a man has sex with his daughter-in-law, both must be put to death. They have committed a perverse act and are guilty of a capital offense.H376H7901H3618H8147H4191H4191H6213H8397H181813"If a man practices homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman, both men have committed a detestable act. They must both be put to death, for they are guilty of a capital offense.H376H7901H2145H4904H802H8147H6213H8441H4191H4191H181814"If a man marries both a woman and her mother, he has committed a wicked act. The man and both women must be burned to death to wipe out such wickedness from among you.H376H3947H802H517H2154H8313H784H2154H843215"If a man has sex with an animal, he must be put to death, and the animal must be killed.H376H5414H7903H929H4191H4191H2026H92916"If a woman presents herself to a male animal to have intercourse with it, she and the animal must both be put to death. You must kill both, for they are guilty of a capital offense.H802H7126H929H7250H2026H802H929H4191H4191H181817"If a man marries his sister, the daughter of either his father or his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a shameful disgrace. They must be publicly cut off from the community. Since the man has violated his sister, he will be punished for his sin.H376H3947H269H1H1323H176H517H1323H7200H6172H7200H6172H2617H3772H5869H5971H1121H1540H269H6172H5375H577118"If a man has sexual relations with a woman during her menstrual period, both of them must be cut off from the community, for together they have exposed the source of her blood flow.H376H7901H802H1739H1540H6172H6168H4726H1540H4726H1818H8147H3772H7130H597119"Do not have sexual relations with your aunt, whether your mother's sister or your father's sister. This would dishonor a close relative. Both parties are guilty and will be punished for their sin.H1540H6172H517H269H1H269H6168H7607H5375H577120If a man has sex with his uncle's wife, he has violated his uncle. Both the man and woman will be punished for their sin, and they will die childless.H376H7901H1733H1540H1730H6172H5375H2399H4191H618521"If a man marries his brother's wife, it is an act of impurity. He has violated his brother, and the guilty couple will remain childless.H376H3947H251H802H5079H1540H251H6172H618522"You must keep all my decrees and regulations by putting them into practice; otherwise the land to which I am bringing you as your new home will vomit you out.H8104H2708H4941H6213H776H935H3427H695823Do not live according to the customs of the people I am driving out before you. It is because they do these shameful things that I detest them.H3212H2708H1471H7971H6440H6213H697324But I have promised you, 'You will possess their land because I will give it to you as your possession—a land flowing with milk and honey.' I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from all other people.H559H3423H127H5414H3423H776H2100H2461H1706H3068H430H914H597125"You must therefore make a distinction between ceremonially clean and unclean animals, and between clean and unclean birds. You must not defile yourselves by eating any unclean animal or bird or creature that scurries along the ground. I have identified them as being unclean for you.H914H2889H929H2931H2931H5775H2889H5315H8262H929H5775H7430H127H914H293026You must be holy because I, the LORD, am holy. I have set you apart from all other people to be my very own.H6918H3068H6918H914H597127"Men and women among you who act as mediums or who consult the spirits of the dead must be put to death by stoning. They are guilty of a capital offense."H376H802H3588H178H3049H4191H4191H7275H68H1818
21The LORD said to Moses, "Give the following instructions to the priests, the descendants of Aaron. "A priest must not make himself ceremonially unclean by touching the dead body of a relative.H3068H559H4872H559H3548H1121H175H559H2930H5315H5971 2The only exceptions are his closest relatives—his mother or father, son or daughter, brother,H7607H7138H517H1H1121H1323H251 3or his virgin sister who depends on him because she has no husband.H269H1330H7138H376H2930 4But a priest must not defile himself and make himself unclean for someone who is related to him only by marriage.H2930H1167H5971H2490 5"The priests must not shave their heads or trim their beards or cut their bodies.H7139H7144H7218H1548H6285H2206H8295H8296H1320 6They must be set apart as holy to their God and must never bring shame on the name of God. They must be holy, for they are the ones who present the special gifts to the LORD, gifts of food for their God.H6944H430H2490H8034H430H801H3068H801H3899H430H7126H6918 7"Priests may not marry a woman defiled by prostitution, and they may not marry a woman who is divorced from her husband, for the priests are set apart as holy to their God.H3947H802H2181H2491H3947H802H1644H376H6918H430 8You must treat them as holy because they offer up food to your God. You must consider them holy because I, the LORD, am holy, and I make you holy.H6942H7126H3899H430H6918H3068H6942H6918 9"If a priest's daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she also defiles her father's holiness, and she must be burned to death.H1323H376H3548H2490H2181H2490H1H8313H784 10"The high priest has the highest rank of all the priests. The anointing oil has been poured on his head, and he has been ordained to wear the priestly garments. He must never leave his hair uncombed or tear his clothing.H1419H3548H251H7218H4888H8081H3332H4390H3027H3847H899H6544H7218H6533H899 11He must not defile himself by going near a dead body. He may not make himself ceremonially unclean even for his father or mother.H935H4191H5315H2930H1H517 12He must not defile the sanctuary of his God by leaving it to attend to a dead person, for he has been made holy by the anointing oil of his God. I am the LORD.H3318H4720H2490H4720H430H5145H4888H8081H430H3068 13"The high priest may marry only a virgin.H3947H802H1331 14He may not marry a widow, a woman who is divorced, or a woman who has defiled herself by prostitution. She must be a virgin from his own clan,H490H1644H2491H2181H3947H3947H1330H5971H802 15so that he will not dishonor his descendants among his clan, for I am the LORD who makes him holy."H2490H2233H5971H3068H6942 16Then the LORD said to Moses,H3068H1696H4872H559 17"Give the following instructions to Aaron: In all future generations, none of your descendants who has any defect will qualify to offer food to his God.H1696H175H559H376H2233H1755H3971H7126H7126H3899H430 18No one who has a defect qualifies, whether he is blind, lame, disfigured, deformed,H376H3971H7126H5787H376H6455H2763H8311 19or has a broken foot or arm,H376H7667H7272H7667H3027 20or is hunchbacked or dwarfed, or has a defective eye, or skin sores or scabs, or damaged testicles.H1384H1851H8400H5869H1618H3217H810H4790 21No descendant of Aaron who has a defect may approach the altar to present special gifts to the LORD. Since he has a defect, he may not approach the altar to offer food to his God.H376H3971H2233H175H3548H5066H7126H801H3068H801H3971H5066H7126H3899H430 22However, he may eat from the food offered to God, including the holy offerings and the most holy offerings.H398H3899H430H6944H6944H6944 23Yet because of his physical defect, he may not enter the room behind the inner curtain or approach the altar, for this would defile my holy places. I am the LORD who makes them holy."H935H6532H5066H4196H3971H2490H4720H3068H6942 24So Moses gave these instructions to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.H4872H1696H175H1121H1121H3478
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