KJ3 Literal Translation
Leviticus 19
1 A repetition of sundry laws.
1And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
2Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and say to them, You shall be holy, for I Jehovah your God am holy.
3Each of you shall revere his mother and his father, and keep My sabbaths; I am Jehovah your God.
4Do not turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves; I am Jehovah your God.
5And when you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah, you shall offer it for your acceptance.
6It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, and on the next day. And if any remains until the third day, it shall be burned with fire.
7And if it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination; it shall not be accepted.
8And he who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of Jehovah; and that person shall be cut off from his people.
9And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleaning of your harvest.
10And you shall not glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather every grape of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the alien; I am Jehovah your God.
11You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.
12And you shall not swear by My name falsely, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I am Jehovah.
13You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
14You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but shall fear your God; I am Jehovah.
15You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty. In righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.
16You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people; you shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor; I am Jehovah.
17You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
18You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am Jehovah.
19You shall keep My statutes. You shall not let your livestock breed with another kind. You shall not sow your field with mixed seed. Nor shall a garment of mixed linen and wool come upon you.
20And whoever lies carnally with a woman who is a slave-girl, betrothed to a husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her, they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
21And he shall bring his guilt offering to Jehovah, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, a ram as a guilt offering.
22And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before Jehovah for his sin which he has done. And the sin which he has done shall be forgiven him.
23And when you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as uncircumcised. Three years it shall be as uncircumcised to you; it shall not be eaten.
24But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, a praise to Jehovah.
25And in the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, so that it may yield to you its increase; I am Jehovah your God.
26You shall not eat anything with the blood. You shall not practice divination, nor soothsaying.
27You shall not round the corners of your heads, nor shall you mar the corners of your beard.
28You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks on you; I am Jehovah.
29Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a harlot, lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
30You shall keep My sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary; I am Jehovah.
31Do not turn to mediums, nor to familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them; I am Jehovah your God.
32You shall rise up before the gray-headed and honor the presence of an old man, and fear your God; I am Jehovah.
33And if an alien stays with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him.
34The alien who stays with you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God.
35You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measurement of length, weight, or volume.
36You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin; I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
37Therefore you shall observe all My statutes and all My judgments, and perform them; I am Jehovah.
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