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Leviticus 19
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“I Am God, Your God”

19GOD spoke to Moses:H3068H1696H4872H559 2"Speak to the congregation of Israel. Tell them: Be holy because I, GOD, your God, am holy.H1696H5712H1121H3478H559H6918H3068H430H6918 3"Every one of you must respect his mother and father. "Keep my Sabbaths. I am GOD, your God.H3372H376H517H1H8104H7676H3068H430 4"Don't take up with no-god idols. Don't make gods of cast metal. I am GOD, your God.H6437H457H6213H4541H430H3068H430 5"When you sacrifice a Peace-Offering to GOD, do it as you've been taught so it is acceptable.H2076H2077H8002H3068H2076H7522 6Eat it on the day you sacrifice it and the day following. Whatever is left until the third day is to be burned up.H398H3117H2077H4283H3498H7992H3117H8313H784 7If it is eaten on the third day it is polluted meat and not acceptable.H398H398H7992H3117H6292H7521 8Whoever eats it will be held responsible because he has violated what is holy to GOD. That person will be cut off from his people.H398H5375H5771H2490H6944H3068H5315H3772H5971 9"When you harvest your land, don't harvest right up to the edges of your field or gather the gleanings from the harvest.H7114H7105H776H3615H6285H7704H3950H3951H7105 10Don't strip your vineyard bare or go back and pick up the fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am GOD, your God.H5953H3754H3950H6528H3754H5800H6041H1616H3068H430 11"Don't steal. "Don't lie. "Don't deceive anyone.H1589H3584H8266H376H5997 12"Don't swear falsely using my name, violating the name of your God. I am GOD.H7650H8034H8267H2490H8034H430H3068 13"Don't exploit your friend or rob him. "Don't hold back the wages of a hired hand overnight.H6231H7453H1497H6468H7916H3885H1242 14"Don't curse the deaf; don't put a stumbling block in front of the blind; fear your God. I am GOD.H7043H2795H5414H4383H6440H5787H3372H430H3068 15"Don't pervert justice. Don't show favoritism to either the poor or the great. Judge on the basis of what is right.H6213H5766H4941H5375H6440H1800H1921H6440H1419H6664H8199H5997 16"Don't spread gossip and rumors. "Don't just stand by when your neighbor's life is in danger. I am GOD.H3212H7400H5971H5975H1818H7453H3068 17"Don't secretly hate your neighbor. If you have something against him, get it out into the open; otherwise you are an accomplice in his guilt.H8130H251H3824H3198H3198H5997H5375H2399 18"Don't seek revenge or carry a grudge against any of your people. "Love your neighbor as yourself. I am GOD.H5358H5201H1121H5971H157H7453H3644H3068 19"Keep my decrees. "Don't mate two different kinds of animals. "Don't plant your fields with two kinds of seed. "Don't wear clothes woven of two kinds of material.H8104H2708H929H7250H3610H2232H7704H3610H899H3610H8162H5927 20"If a man has sex with a slave girl who is engaged to another man but has not yet been ransomed or given her freedom, there must be an investigation. But they aren't to be put to death because she wasn't free.H376H7901H2233H7902H802H8198H2778H376H6299H6299H2668H5414H1244H4191H2666 21The man must bring a Compensation-Offering to GOD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, a ram of compensation.H935H817H3068H6607H168H4150H352H817 22The priest will perform the ritual of atonement for him before GOD with the ram of compensation for the sin he has committed. Then he will stand forgiven of the sin he committed.H3548H3722H352H817H6440H3068H2403H2398H2403H2398H5545 23"When you enter the land and plant any kind of fruit tree, don't eat the fruit for three years; consider it inedible.H935H776H5193H6086H3978H6188H6529H6188H6190H7969H8141H6189H398 24By the fourth year its fruit is holy, an offering of praise to GOD.H7243H8141H6529H6944H1974H3068 25Beginning in the fifth year you can eat its fruit; you'll have richer harvests this way. I am GOD, your God.H2549H8141H398H6529H3254H8393H3068H430 26"Don't eat meat with blood in it. "Don't practice divination or sorcery.H398H1818H5172H6049 27"Don't cut the hair on the sides of your head or trim your beard.H5362H6285H7218H7843H6285H2206 28"Don't gash your bodies on behalf of the dead. "Don't tattoo yourselves. I am GOD.H5414H3793H8296H1320H5315H5414H7085H3068 29"Don't violate your daughter by making her a whore—the whole country would soon become a brothel, filled with sordid sex.H2490H1323H2181H776H2181H776H4390H2154 30"Keep my Sabbaths and revere my Sanctuary: I am GOD.H8104H7676H3372H4720H3068 31"Don't dabble in the occult or traffic with mediums; you'll pollute your souls. I am GOD, your God.H6437H178H1245H3049H2930H3068H430 32"Show respect to the aged; honor the presence of an elder; fear your God. I am GOD.H6965H6440H7872H1921H6440H2205H3372H430H3068 33"When a foreigner lives with you in your land, don't take advantage of him.H1616H1481H776H3238 34Treat the foreigner the same as a native. Love him like one of your own. Remember that you were once foreigners in Egypt. I am GOD, your God.H1616H1481H249H157H1616H776H4714H3068H430 35"Don't cheat when measuring length, weight, or quantity.H6213H5766H4941H4060H4948H4884 36Use honest scales and weights and measures. I am GOD, your God. I brought you out of Egypt.H6664H3976H6664H68H6664H374H6664H1969H3068H430H3318H776H4714 37"Keep all my decrees and all my laws. Yes, do them. I am GOD."H8104H2708H4941H6213H3068


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