Leviticus 19 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Idolatry Forbidden

Lev 19:1And the LORD said to Moses,

Lev 19:2"Say to all the congregation of the people of Israel, You shall be holy; for I the LORD your God am holy.

Lev 19:3Every 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

Lev 19:4Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.

Lev 19:5

Lev 19:5"When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.

Lev 19:6

Lev 19:6It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, or on the morrow; and anything left over until the third day shall be burned with fire.

Lev 19:7

Lev 19:7If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination; it will not be accepted,

Lev 19:8

Lev 19:8and every one who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned a holy thing of the LORD; and that person shall be cut off from his people.

Sundry Laws

Lev 19:9

Lev 19:9"When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field to its very border, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest.

Lev 19:10

Lev 19:10And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the LORD your God.

Lev 19:11

Lev 19:11"You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

Lev 19:12

Lev 19:12And you shall not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

Lev 19:13

Lev 19:13"You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

Lev 19:14

Lev 19:14You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the LORD.

Lev 19:15

Lev 19:15"You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

Lev 19:16

Lev 19:16You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand forth against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD.

Lev 19:17

Lev 19:17"You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason with your neighbor, lest you bear sin because of him.

Lev 19:18

Lev 19:18You shall not take vengeance or bear any grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.

Lev 19:19

Lev 19:19"You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; nor shall there come upon you a garment of cloth made of two kinds of stuff.

Lev 19:20

Lev 19:20"If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave, betrothed to another man and not yet ransomed or given her freedom, an inquiry shall be held. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free;

Lev 19:21

Lev 19:21but he shall bring a guilt offering for himself to the LORD, to the door of the tent of meeting, a ram for a guilt offering.

Lev 19:22

Lev 19:22And the priest shall 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 shall be forgiven him.

Lev 19:23

Lev 19:23"When you come into the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden; three years it shall be forbidden to you, it must not be eaten.

Lev 19:24

Lev 19:24And in the fourth year all their fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the LORD.

Lev 19:25

Lev 19:25But in the fifth year you may eat of their fruit, that they may yield more richly for you: I am the LORD your God.

Lev 19:26

Lev 19:26"You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not practice augury or witchcraft.

Lev 19:27

Lev 19:27You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard.

Lev 19:28

Lev 19:28You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh on account of the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

Lev 19:29

Lev 19:29"Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry and the land become full of wickedness.

Lev 19:30

Lev 19:30You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

Lev 19:31

Lev 19:31"Do not turn to mediums or wizards; do not seek them out, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.

Lev 19:32

Lev 19:32"You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the LORD.

Lev 19:33

Lev 19:33"When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.

Lev 19:34

Lev 19:34The stranger who sojourns 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

Lev 19:35"You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.

Lev 19:36

Lev 19:36You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Lev 19:37

Lev 19:37And you shall observe all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them: I am the LORD."

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Leviticus 19 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Idolatry Forbidden

Sundry Laws

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