Leviticus 19 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised（CSBA）

Laws of Holiness

1The Lord spoke to Moses:

2‘Speak to the entire Israelite community and tell them: Be holy  because I, the Lord your God, am holy. 

3‘Each of you is to respect his mother and father.  You are to keep my Sabbaths; I am the Lord your God.

4Do not turn to worthless idols  or make cast images  of gods for yourselves;  I am the Lord your God.

5‘When you offer a fellowship sacrifice to the Lord, sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.

6It is to be eaten on the day you sacrifice it or on the next day, but what remains on the third day must be burned. 

7If any is eaten on the third day, it is a repulsive thing; it will not be accepted. 

8Anyone who eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned what is holy to the Lord. That person is to be cut off from his people. 

9‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edge of your field or gather the gleanings  of your harvest.

10Do not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor  and the resident foreigner;  I am the Lord your God.

11‘Do not steal.  Do not act deceptively  or lie  to one another.

12Do not swear falsely by my name, profaning the name of your God;  I am the Lord.

13‘Do not oppress  your neighbour or rob  him. The wages due a hired worker  must not remain with you until morning.

14Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind,  but you are to fear your God;  I am the Lord. 

15‘Do not act unjustly  when deciding a case. Do not be partial  to the poor or give preference to the rich;  judge your neighbour fairly.

16Do not go about spreading slander  among your people; do not jeopardise  your neighbour’s life; I am the Lord.

17‘Do not harbour hatred against your brother.  ,

Rebuke your neighbour directly, and you will not incur guilt because of him. 

18Do not take revenge  or bear a grudge against members of your community, but love your neighbour as yourself;  I am the Lord.

19‘You are to keep my statutes. Do not crossbreed two different kinds of your livestock, sow your fields with two kinds of seed, or put on a garment made of two kinds of material. 

20‘If a man has sexual intercourse with a woman who is a slave designated for another man, but she has not been redeemed  or given her freedom, there must be punishment.  They are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.

21However, he must bring a ram as his guilt  offering to the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 

22The priest will make atonement on his behalf before the Lord with the ram of the guilt offering for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven for the sin he committed.

23‘When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you are to consider the fruit forbidden.  It will be forbidden to you for three years; it is not to be eaten.

24In the fourth year all its fruit is to be consecrated as a praise offering  to the Lord.

25But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit. In this way its yield will increase for you;  I am the Lord your God.

26‘You are not to eat anything with blood in it.  ,

You are not to practise divination  or witchcraft. 

27You are not to cut off the hair at the sides of your head or mar the edge of your beard. 

28You are not to make gashes on your bodies for the dead  or put tattoo marks on yourselves; I am the Lord.

29‘Do not debase  ,

your daughter by making her a prostitute,  or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

30Keep my Sabbaths and revere my sanctuary;  I am the Lord.

31‘Do not turn to mediums  ,

or consult spiritists,  ,

or you will be defiled by them; I am the Lord your God.

32‘You are to rise in the presence of the elderly and honour the old.  Fear your God; I am the Lord.

33‘When a foreigner resides with you in your land, you must not oppress  him.

34You will regard the foreigner who resides with you as the native-born among you. You are to love him as yourself,  for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt;  I am the Lord your God.

35‘Do not be unfair  in measurements of length, weight, or volume.

36You are to have honest balances,  honest weights, an honest dry measure,  and an honest liquid measure;  ,

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

37Keep all my statutes and all my ordinances and do them; I am the Lord.’