Lev 19 | NASB2020 | STEP | Then the Lord spoke to Moses , saying :

Leviticus 19

Idolatry Forbidden

1 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2 “Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘ ^aYou shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. 3 Every one of you ^bshall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep ^cMy Sabbaths; ^dI am the Lord your God. 4 Do not turn to ^eidols or make for yourselves cast metal ^fgods; I am the Lord your God.

5 ‘Now when you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted. 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. 7 So if it is eaten at all on the third day, it is unclean; it will not be accepted. 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

9 ‘ ^gNow 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. 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.

11 ‘ ^hYou shall not steal, nor deal falsely, ⁱnor lie to one another. 12 And ^jyou shall not swear falsely by My name, so as to ^kprofane the name of your God; I am the Lord.

13 ‘ ^lYou shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. ^mThe wages of a hired worker are not to remain with you all night until morning. 14 You shall not curse a person who is deaf, nor ⁿput a stumbling block before a person who is blind, but you shall revere your God; I am the Lord.

15 ‘ ^oYou 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. 16 You shall not go about as ^pa slanderer among your people; and you are not to ^{▼▼Lit stand on}jeopardize the ^{▼▼Lit blood
,} ^slife of your neighbor. I am the Lord.

17 ‘You ^tshall not hate your fellow countryman in your heart; you ^umay certainly rebuke your neighbor, but you are not to incur sin because of him. 18 ^vYou shall not take vengeance, ^wnor hold any grudge against the sons of your people, but ^xyou shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord.

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

20 ‘ ^zNow 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. 21 He shall bring his guilt offering to the Lord to the doorway of the tent of meeting, ^aaa ram as a guilt offering. 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.

23 ‘Now when you enter the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as ^{▼▼Lit uncircumcised}forbidden. For three years it shall be ^{▼▼Lit uncircumcised}forbidden to you; it shall not be eaten. 24 And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the Lord. 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.

26 ‘You shall not eat any meat ^adwith the blood. You shall not practice ^aedivination nor soothsaying. 27 ^afYou shall not round off the ^{▼▼Lit side}hairline of your heads, nor trim the edges of your beard. 28 You shall not make any cuts in your ^{▼▼Lit flesh}body for the ^{▼▼Lit soul}dead, nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the Lord.

29 ‘ ^ajDo 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. 30 You shall ^akkeep My Sabbaths and ^alrevere My sanctuary; I am the Lord.

31 ‘Do not turn to ^{▼▼Or ghosts or spirits
,} ^anmediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.

32 ‘ ^aoYou shall stand up in the presence of the grayheaded and honor ^{▼▼Lit the face of the old}elders, and you shall ^{▼▼Or revere}fear your God; I am the Lord.

33 ‘ ^arWhen a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not ^{▼▼Lit oppress him}do him wrong. 34 The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and ^atyou shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.

35 ‘ ^auYou shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or volume. 36 You shall have ^avaccurate balances, accurate weights, an accurate ^{▼▼I.e., a dry measure, about 1 cubic foot or 0.03 cubic meters}ephah, and an accurate ^{▼▼I.e., a liquid measure, about 1 gallon or 3.8 liters}hin; I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt. 37 So you shall keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and do them; I am the Lord.’”