Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

2 “Say to all the congregation of the children of Israel, ‘^aYou shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy. 1+@Pet 1:15 3 Each of you ^ashall ¹respect his mother and his father, and you shall keep ^bMy Sabbaths; ^cI am the LORD your God. 4 Do not turn to ^aidols or make for yourselves molten ^bgods (images cast in metal) ; 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 the same day you offer it and on the day following; and if anything remains until the third day, it shall be burned in the fire. 7 But if it is eaten at all on the third day, it is repulsive; it will not be accepted by God as an offering. 8 Everyone who eats it will bear the responsibility for his wickedness, for he has profaned a holy thing of the LORD; and that person shall be cut off from his people excluding him from the atonement made for them.

9 ‘^aNow when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings (grain left after reaping) of your harvest. 10 And you shall not glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather its fallen grapes; you shall leave them for the poor and for the stranger. I am the LORD your God.

11 ‘^aYou shall not steal, nor deal deceptively, nor ^blie to one another. Col 3:9, 10 12 ^aYou shall not swear an oath falsely by My name, so as to ^bprofane the name of your God; I am the LORD.

13 ‘^aYou shall not oppress or exploit your neighbor, nor rob him. ^bYou shall not withhold the wages of a hired man overnight until morning. 14 You shall not curse a deaf man nor ^aput a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God with profound reverence; I am the LORD.

15 ‘^aYou shall not do injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor show a preference for the great, but judge your neighbor fairly. 16 You shall not go around as ^aa gossip among your people, and you are not to act against the ^blife of your neighbor with slander or false testimony; I am the LORD.

17 ‘You ^ashall not hate your brother in your heart; you ^bmay most certainly rebuke your neighbor, but shall not incur sin because of him. Gal 6:1; 1+@John 2:9, 11; 3:15 18 ^aYou shall not take revenge nor ^bbear any grudge against the sons of your people, but ^cyou shall love your neighbor (acquaintance, associate, companion) as yourself; I am the LORD. Matt 5:43-46; Rom 12:17, 19

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

20 ‘^aNow if a man has intimate relations with a woman who is a slave acquired for marriage to another man, but who has not been redeemed nor given her freedom, there shall be punishment after an investigation; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free; 21 but he shall bring his guilt offering to the LORD to the doorway of the Tent of Meeting, ^aa ram as a guilt offering. 22 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 he shall be forgiven for his sin.

23 ‘When you enter the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall consider their fruit ¹forbidden. For three years the fruit shall be forbidden to you; it shall not be eaten. 24 In the fourth year all the fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the LORD. 25 In the fifth year you may eat the fruit of the trees, this is so that their yield may increase for you; I am the LORD your God.

26 ‘You shall not eat anything ^awith the blood, nor practice ^bdivination using omens or witchcraft or soothsaying. 27 ^aYou shall not trim and round off the side-growth of the hair on your heads, nor mar the edges of your beard. 28 You shall not make any cuts on your body in mourning for the dead, nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves; I am the LORD.

29 ‘^aDo not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land will not fall to prostitution and become full of wickedness. 30 You shall ^akeep My Sabbaths and ^brevere My sanctuary. I am the LORD.

31 ‘Do not turn to ^amediums who pretend to consult the dead or to spiritists who have spirits of divination; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.

32 ‘^aYou shall rise before the gray-headed and honor the aged, and you shall fear your God with profound reverence; I am the LORD.

33 ‘When ^aa stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress or mistreat him. 34 But the stranger who resides with you shall be to you like someone native-born among you; and ^ayou shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.

35 ‘^aYou shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight or quantity. 36 You shall have ^ajust and accurate balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just ¹hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. 37 You shall observe and keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them. I am the LORD.’”