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Leviticus 19 - 21
Chapter 19
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2Speak
unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall
be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy. 3Ye shall fear every
man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your
God. 4Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am
the LORD your God. 5And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings
unto the LORD, ye shall offer it at your own will. 6It shall be eaten
the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow: and if ought remain until the third
day, it shall be burnt in the fire. 7And if it be eaten at all on the
third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted. 8Therefore
every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath
profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and that soul shall be cut off from
among his people. 9And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou
shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the
gleanings of thy harvest. 10And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard,
neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave
them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.
11 Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie
one to another. 12And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither
shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD. 13Thou
shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that
is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning. 14Thou
shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt
fear thy God: I am the LORD. 15Ye shall do no unrighteousness
in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the
person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
16Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy
people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am
the LORD. 17Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou
shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. 18Thou
shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but
thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle
gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed:
neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee. 20And
whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to
an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be
scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free. 21And
he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering. 22And
the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering
before the LORD for his sin which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done
shall be forgiven him. 23And when ye shall come into the land, and
shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit
thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it
shall not be eaten of. 24But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof
shall be holy to praise the LORD withal. 25And in the fifth
year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase
thereof: I am the LORD your God. 26Ye shall not eat any
thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times. 27Ye
shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of
thy beard. 28Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the
dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD. 29Do not
prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to
whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
30 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I
am the LORD. 31Regard not them that have familiar spirits,
neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your
God. 32Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face
of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD. 33And if a
stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. 34But
the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and
thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am
the LORD your God. 35Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in
meteyard, in weight, or in measure. 36Just balances, just weights, a
just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which
brought you out of the land of Egypt. 37Therefore shall ye observe
all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.
Chapter 20
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2Again,
thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children
of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of
his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land
shall stone him with stones. 3And I will set my face against that
man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his
seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. 4And
if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he
giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not: 5Then I will set my
face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all
that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their
people. 6And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar
spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face
against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people. 7Sanctify
yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God. 8And
ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.
9For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely
put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be
upon him.
10 And the man that committeth adultery with another
man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s
wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. 11And
the man that lieth with his father’s wife hath uncovered his father’s
nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be
upon them. 12And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them
shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall
be upon them. 13If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with
a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to
death; their blood shall be upon them. 14And if a man take a
wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire,
both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you. 15And if a
man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the
beast. 16And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down
thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to
death; their blood shall be upon them. 17And if a man shall
take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and see
her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they
shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister’s
nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity. 18And if a man shall lie with
a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered
her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them
shall be cut off from among their people. 19And thou shalt not
uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister, nor of thy father’s sister:
for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity. 20And
if a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife, he hath uncovered his uncle’s
nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless. 21And
if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath
uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.
22 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my
judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein,
spue you not out. 23And ye shall not walk in the manners of the
nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and
therefore I abhorred them. 24But I have said unto you, Ye shall
inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that
floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated
you from other people. 25Ye shall therefore put difference
between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye
shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of
living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as
unclean. 26And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am
holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine. 27A
man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely
be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be
upon them.
Chapter 21
1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the
sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among
his people: 2But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is,
for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and
for his brother, 3And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him,
which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled. 4But he
shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane
himself. 5They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall
they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. 6They
shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the
offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do
offer: therefore they shall be holy. 7They shall not take a wife that
is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her
husband: for he is holy unto his God. 8Thou shalt sanctify him
therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for
I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy. 9And the daughter of
any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her
father: she shall be burnt with fire.
10 And he that is the high priest among his
brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated
to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes; 11Neither
shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his
mother; 12Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the
sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is
upon him: I am the LORD. 13And he shall take a wife in her
virginity. 14A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an
harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to
wife. 15Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the
LORD do sanctify him.
16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 17Speak
unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that
hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. 18For
whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind
man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, 19Or
a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, 20Or crookbackt, or a
dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his
stones broken; 21No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the
priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath
a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. 22He
shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. 23Only
he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath
a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them. 24And
Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of
Israel.
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