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I am the LORD your God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods (images cast in metal); I am the LORD your God. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>‘Now when you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>It shall be eaten the same day you offer it and on the day following; and if anything remains until the third day, it shall be burned in the fire. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But if it is eaten at all on the third day, it is repulsive; it will not be accepted [by God as an offering]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Everyone who eats it will bear [the responsibility for] his wickedness, for he has profaned a holy thing of the LORD; and that person shall be cut off from his people [excluding him from the atonement made for them]. <p class="hdg">Various Laws</p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>‘Now when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings (grain left after reaping) of your harvest. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And you shall not glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather its fallen grapes; you shall leave them for the poor and for the stranger. I am the LORD your God. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>‘You shall not steal, nor deal deceptively, nor lie to one another. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>You shall not swear [an oath] falsely by My name, so as to profane the name of your God; I am the LORD. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>‘You shall not oppress <i>or</i> exploit your neighbor, nor rob him. You shall not withhold the wages of a hired man overnight until morning. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You shall not curse a deaf man nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God [with profound reverence]; I am the LORD. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>‘You shall not do injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor show a preference for the great, but judge your neighbor fairly. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>You shall not go around as a gossip among your people, and you are not to act against the life of your neighbor [with slander or false testimony]; I am the LORD. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart; you may most certainly rebuke your neighbor, but shall not incur sin because of him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>You shall not take revenge nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor (acquaintance, associate, companion) as yourself; I am the LORD. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>‘You are to keep My statutes. You shall not breed together two kinds of your cattle; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor wear clothing of two kinds of material mixed together. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>‘Now if a man has intimate relations with a woman who is a slave acquired for [marriage to] <i>another</i> man, but who has not been redeemed nor given her freedom, there shall be punishment [after an investigation]; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free; <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>but he shall bring his guilt offering to the LORD to the doorway of the Tent of Meeting, a ram as a guilt offering. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>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 he shall be forgiven for his sin. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>‘When you enter the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall consider their fruit <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>forbidden. For three years the fruit shall be forbidden to you; it shall not be eaten. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>In the fourth year all the fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>In the fifth year you may eat the fruit [of the trees], this is so that their yield may increase for you; I am the LORD your God. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>‘You shall not eat <i>anything</i> with the blood, nor practice divination [using omens or witchcraft] or soothsaying. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>You shall not trim <i>and</i> round off the side-growth of [the hair on] your heads, nor mar the edges of your beard. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>You shall not make any cuts on your body [in mourning] for the dead, nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves; I am the LORD. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>‘Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land will not fall to prostitution and become full of wickedness. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>You shall keep My Sabbaths and revere My sanctuary. I am the LORD. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>‘Do not turn to mediums [who pretend to consult the dead] or to spiritists [who have spirits of divination]; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>‘You shall rise before the gray-headed and honor the aged, and you shall fear your God [with profound reverence]; I am the LORD. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>‘When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress <i>or</i> mistreat him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>But the stranger who resides with you shall be to you like someone native-born among you; and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>‘You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight or quantity. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>You shall have just <i>and</i> accurate balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="/leviticus/19-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>You shall observe <i>and</i> keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them. I am the LORD.’”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> Lit <i>fear;</i> the Hebrew can refer to respect or reverence as essentially healthy forms of fear.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">23</span> Lit <i>uncircumcised</i>.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">36</span> Approx one gallon.<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../leviticus/18.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Leviticus 18"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Leviticus 18" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../leviticus/20.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Leviticus 20"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Leviticus 20" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>