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Leviticus 19 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

Idolatry Forbidden

Lev 19:1

Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

Lev 19:2

“Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.

Lev 19:3‘Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep My Sabbaths; I am the LORD your God.
Lev 19:4‘Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves cast metal gods; I am the LORD your God.
Lev 19:5

‘Now when you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.

Lev 19:6‘It shall be eaten on the same day you offer it, and on the next day; but what remains until the third day shall be burned with fire.
Lev 19:7‘So if it is eaten at all on the third day, it is unclean; it will not be accepted.
Lev 19:8‘And everyone who eats it will bear the consequences for his guilt, because he has profaned the holy thing of the LORD; and that person shall be cut off from his people.

Various Laws

Lev 19:9

‘Now when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very edges of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.

Lev 19:10‘And you shall not glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the needy and for the stranger. I am the LORD your God.
Lev 19:11

‘You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

Lev 19:12‘And you shall not swear falsely by My name, so as to 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 worker are not to remain with you all night until morning.

Lev 19:14‘You shall not curse a person who is deaf, nor put a stumbling block before a person who is blind, but you shall revere your God; I am the LORD.
Lev 19:15

‘You shall not do injustice in judgment; you shall not show partiality to the poor nor give preference to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly.

Lev 19:16‘You shall not go about as a slanderer among your people; and you are not to [fn]jeopardize the [fn]life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.
Lev 19:17

‘You shall not hate your fellow countryman in your heart; you may certainly rebuke your neighbor, but you are not to incur sin because of him.

Lev 19:18‘You shall not take vengeance, nor hold any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD.
Lev 19:19

‘You are to keep My statutes. You shall not cross-breed two kinds of your cattle; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor wear a garment of two kinds of material mixed together.

Lev 19:20

‘Now if a man has sexual relations 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.

Lev 19:21‘He shall bring his guilt offering to the LORD to the doorway of the tent of meeting, a ram as a guilt offering.
Lev 19:22‘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.
Lev 19:23

‘Now when you enter the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as [fn]forbidden. For three years it shall be [fn]forbidden to you; it shall not be eaten.

Lev 19:24‘And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the LORD.
Lev 19:25‘But in the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, so that its yield may increase for you; I am the LORD your God.
Lev 19:26

‘You shall not eat any meat with the blood. You shall not practice divination nor soothsaying.

Lev 19:27‘You shall not round off the [fn]hairline of your heads, nor trim the edges of your beard.
Lev 19:28‘You shall not make any cuts in your [fn]body for the [fn]dead, nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD.
Lev 19:29

‘Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land does not fall into prostitution, and the land does not become full of outrageous sin.

Lev 19:30‘You shall keep My Sabbaths and revere My sanctuary; I am the LORD.
Lev 19:31

‘Do not turn to [fn]mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.

Lev 19:32

‘You shall stand up in the presence of the grayheaded and honor [fn]elders, and you shall [fn]fear your God; I am the LORD.

Lev 19:33

‘When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not [fn]do him wrong.

Lev 19:34‘The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.
Lev 19:35

‘You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or volume.

Lev 19:36‘You shall have accurate balances, accurate weights, an accurate [fn]ephah, and an accurate [fn]hin; I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
Lev 19:37‘So you shall keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and do them; I am the LORD.’”
NASB20 Footnotes
Lit stand on
Lit blood
Lit uncircumcised
Lit uncircumcised
Lit side
Lit flesh
Lit soul
Or ghosts or spirits
Lit the face of the old
Or revere
Lit oppress him
I.e., a dry measure, about 1 cubic foot or 0.03 cubic meters
I.e., a liquid measure, about 1 gallon or 3.8 liters
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