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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Leviticus 19 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/leviticus/19.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/leviticus/19-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Leviticus 19</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../leviticus/18.htm" title="Leviticus 18">◄</a> Leviticus 19 <a href="../leviticus/20.htm" title="Leviticus 20">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/leviticus/19.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> Is Holy</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> spoke to Moses, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God am holy. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>It shall be eaten the same day you offer it or on the day after, and anything left over until the third day shall be burned up with fire. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is tainted; it will not be accepted, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned what is holy to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and that person shall be cut off from his people.</p> <p class="heading">Love Your Neighbor as Yourself</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And 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 <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>You shall not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired worker shall not remain with you all night until the morning. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew blood">a</a></sup></span> of your neighbor: I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="heading">You Shall Keep My Statutes</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“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 you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“If a man lies sexually with a woman who is a slave, assigned to another man and not yet ransomed or given her freedom, a distinction shall be made. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>but he shall bring his compensation to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, a ram for a guilt offering. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> for his sin that he has committed, and he shall be forgiven for the sin that he has committed.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>“When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, then you shall regard its fruit as forbidden.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew as its uncircumcision">b</a></sup></span> Three years it shall be forbidden to you; it must not be eaten. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But in the fifth year you may eat of its fruit, to increase its yield for you: I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>“You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>“Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, lest the land fall into prostitution and the land become full of depravity. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>“Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>“You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>“When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with 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 <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>“You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin:<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters; a hin was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters">c</a></sup></span> I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And you shall observe all my statutes and all my rules, and do them: I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> Hebrew <i>blood</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">23</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">as</span> its uncircumcision</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">36</span> An <i class="catch-word">ephah</i> was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters; a <i class="catch-word">hin</i> was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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