Leviticus 19:15 – 19:32
You shall not render an unfair decision: do not
favor the poor or show deference to the rich; judge your kinsman
fairly. Do not deal basely with your countrymen. Do not profit by
the blood of your fellow: I am the Lord. You shall not hate your
kinsfolk in your heart. Reprove your kinsman but incur no guilt
because of him. You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge
against your countrymen. Love your fellow as yourself: I am the
Lord.
You shall observe My laws. You shall not let your cattle mate with
a different kind; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of
seed; you shall not put on cloth from a mixture of two kinds of
material.
If a man has carnal relations with a woman who is a slave and has
been designated for another man, but has not been redeemed or
given her freedom, there shall be an indemnity; they shall not,
however, be put to death, since she has not been freed. But he
must bring to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, as his guilt
offering to the Lord, a ram of guilt offering. With the ram of
guilt offering the priest shall make expiation for him before the
Lord for the sin that he committed; and the sin that he committed
will be forgiven him.
When you enter the land and plant any tree for food, you shall
regard its fruit as forbidden. Three years it shall be forbidden
for you, not to be eaten. In the fourth year all its fruit shall
be set aside for jubilation before the Lord; and only in the fifth
year may you use its fruit--that its yield to you may be
increased: I the Lord am your God.
You shall not eat anything with its blood. You shall not practice
divination or soothsaying. You shall not round off the side-growth
on your head, or destroy the side-growth of your beard. You shall
not make gashes in your flesh for the dead, or incise any marks on
yourselves: I am the Lord.
Do not degrade your daughter and make her a harlot, lest the land
fall into harlotry and the land be filled with depravity. You
shall keep My sabbaths and venerate My sanctuary: I am the Lord.
Do not turn to ghosts and do not inquire of familiar spirits, to
be defiled by them: I the Lord am your God. You shall rise before
the aged and show deference to the old; you shall fear your God: I
am the Lord.