| 1 | And the LORD said to Moses, |
| 2 | "Say to the people of Israel, I am the LORD your God. |
| 3 | You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you dwelt, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes. |
| 4 | You shall do my ordinances and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the LORD your God. |
| 5 | You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, by doing which a man shall live: I am the LORD. |
| 6 | "None of you shall approach any one near of kin to him to uncover nakedness. I am the LORD. |
| 7 | You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness. |
| 8 | You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness. |
| 9 | You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or born abroad. |
| 10 | You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter or of your daughter's daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness. |
| 11 | You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, begotten by your father, since she is your sister. |
| 12 | You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister; she is your father's near kinswoman. |
| 13 | You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is your mother's near kinswoman. |
| 14 | You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt. |
| 15 | You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness. |
| 16 | You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; she is your brother's nakedness. |
| 17 | You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are your near kinswomen; it is wickedness. |
| 18 | And you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is yet alive. |
| 19 | "You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness. |
| 20 | And you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her. |
| 21 | You shall not give any of your children to devote them by fire to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD. |
| 22 | You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. |
| 23 | And you shall not lie with any beast and defile yourself with it, neither shall any woman give herself to a beast to lie with it: it is perversion. |
| 24 | "Do not defile yourselves by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am casting out before you defiled themselves; |
| 25 | and the land became defiled, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. |
| 26 | But you shall keep my statutes and my ordinances and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you |
| 27 | (for all of these abominations the men of the land did, who were before you, so that the land became defiled); |
| 28 | lest the land vomit you out, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. |
| 29 | For whoever shall do any of these abominations, the persons that do them shall be cut off from among their people. |
| 30 | So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you, and never to defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God." |
| 1 | And the LORD said to Moses, |
| 2 | "Say to all the congregation of the people of Israel, You shall be holy; for I the LORD your God am holy. |
| 3 | Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God. |
| 4 | Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God. |
| 5 | "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 the same day you offer it, or on the morrow; and anything left over until the third day shall be burned with fire. |
| 7 | If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination; it will not be accepted, |
| 8 | and 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. |
| 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. |
| 10 | 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 LORD your God. |
| 11 | "You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. |
| 12 | And you shall not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD. |
| 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. |
| 14 | You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the LORD. |
| 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. |
| 16 | You 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. |
| 17 | "You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason with your neighbor, lest you bear sin because of him. |
| 18 | You 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. |
| 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. |
| 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; |
| 21 | but 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. |
| 22 | And 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. |
| 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. |
| 24 | And in the fourth year all their fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the LORD. |
| 25 | But in the fifth year you may eat of their fruit, that they may yield more richly for you: I am the LORD your God. |
| 26 | "You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not practice augury or witchcraft. |
| 27 | You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard. |
| 28 | You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh on account of the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the LORD. |
| 29 | "Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry and the land become full of wickedness. |
| 30 | You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. |
| 31 | "Do not turn to mediums or wizards; do not seek them out, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God. |
| 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. |
| 33 | "When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. |
| 34 | The 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. |
| 35 | "You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity. |
| 36 | You 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. |
| 37 | And you shall observe all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them: I am the LORD." |
