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Leviticus 19 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Lev 19:1The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,
Lev 19:2"Speak to all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el, and tell them, 'You shall be holy; for I the LORD your God am holy.
Lev 19:3"'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Shabbatot. I am the LORD your God.
Lev 19:4"'Don't turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.
Lev 19:5"'When you offer a sacrifice of shalom offerings to the LORD, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.
Lev 19:6It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, and on the next day: and if anything remains until the third day, it shall be burned with fire.
Lev 19:7If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination. It will not be accepted;
Lev 19:8but everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of the LORD, and that soul shall be cut off from his people.

Sundry Laws

Lev 19:9"'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.
Lev 19:10You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.
Lev 19:11"'You shall not steal; neither shall you deal falsely, nor lie to one another.
Lev 19:12"'You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
Lev 19:13"'You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
Lev 19:14"'You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.
Lev 19:15"'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
Lev 19:16"'You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people; neither shall you stand against the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.
Lev 19:17"'You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
Lev 19:18You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
Lev 19:19"'You shall keep my statutes. "'You shall not crossbreed different kinds of animals. "'you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; "'neither shall there come upon on you a garment made of two kinds of material.
Lev 19:20"'If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
Lev 19:21He shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, even a ram for a trespass offering.
Lev 19:22The Kohen shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he has committed: and the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him.
Lev 19:23"'When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. Three years shall they be forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten.
Lev 19:24But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, for giving praise to the LORD.
Lev 19:25In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am the LORD your God.
Lev 19:26"'You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it; neither shall you use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.
Lev 19:27You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your heads, neither shall you clip off the edge of your beard.
Lev 19:28"'You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am the LORD.
Lev 19:29Don't profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.
Lev 19:30"'You shall keep my Shabbatot, and reverence my sanctuary; I am the LORD.
Lev 19:31"'Don't turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. Don't seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.
Lev 19:32You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.
Lev 19:33"'If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.
Lev 19:34The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Mitzrayim. I am the LORD your God.
Lev 19:35"'You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
Lev 19:36Just balances, just weights, a just efah, and a just hin, shall you have. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Mitzrayim.
Lev 19:37You shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them. I am the LORD.'"
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