Be Holy as Your Father Is Holy
19 1 Our Father spoke to Moses, saying:
2 Speak to the whole community of Israel and say to them: You shall be holy, for I, your Father, am holy.
3 Each of you must honor your mother and your father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am your Father.
4 Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves gods of cast metal. I am your Father.
5 When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to me, offer it so that you may be accepted. 6 It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, or on the next day; and anything left over until the third day shall be burned in the fire. 7 If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is foul; it will not be accepted. 8 Whoever eats it will bear their guilt, because they have profaned what is holy to me; that person will be cut off from their people. 1 1 v8 "Cut off from the people" means permanently expelled from the covenant community, with divine judgment implied.
Love Your Neighbor as Yourself
9 When you harvest your land, do not harvest your field all the way to its edges, nor gather the leftover grain from your harvest. 10 You shall not strip your vineyard bare, nor gather its fallen grapes. You shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am your Father.
11 Do not steal; do not deceive; do not lie to one another.
12 You shall not swear falsely by my name, profaning the name of your Father. I am your Father.
13 You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. Do not hold a hired worker's wages overnight.
14 You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your Father. I am your Father.
15 Do not pervert justice in your decisions. Do not show partiality to the poor or favor the powerful, but judge your neighbor fairly.
16 Do not go around spreading slander among your people, and do not stand by while your neighbor's life is in danger. I am your Father.
17 Do not hate your brother in your heart, but speak openly with your neighbor about it, so that you do not bear sin because of him.
18 You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am your Father.
Keep Your Father's Statutes
19 You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your livestock breed with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor wear a garment made of two kinds of material.
20 If a man lies with a woman who is a slave assigned to another man, and she has not been ransomed or given her freedom, an inquiry shall be made. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free. 21 He shall bring his guilt offering to me, to the entrance 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 me, for the sin he has committed; and he shall be forgiven for the sin he committed.
23 When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you shall regard its fruit as forbidden. Three years it shall be forbidden to you; it must not be eaten. 24 In the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to me. 25 But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit, so that it may yield more for you. I am your Father.
26 You shall not eat anything with the blood still in it. You shall not practice divination or interpret omens.
27 You shall not round off the hair at the sides of your head or mar the edges of your beard. 2 2 v27 These cuts marked pagan mourning and religious rites that Israel was not to copy.
28 You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am your Father.
29 Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will fall into prostitution and become full of depravity.
30 You shall keep my Sabbaths and revere my sanctuary. I am your Father.
31 Do not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am your Father.
32 You shall stand up before the gray-haired and show respect to the elderly, and you shall fear your Father. I am your Father.
33 When a foreigner lives among you in your land, do not mistreat them. 34 The foreigner who lives among you must be to you as a native among you, and you shall love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am your Father.
35 You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length, weight, or quantity. 36 You shall have honest scales, honest weights, an honest grain measure, and an honest liquid measure. I am your Father, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
37 And you shall keep all my statutes and all my rules, and do them. I am your Father.