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Leviticus 19

    ²Say to all the assembly of the Israelites, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.^(A)

    ³Each of you shall give due respect to his mother and his father, and keep My Sabbaths holy. I the Lord am your God.

    ⁴Do not turn to idols and things of nought or make for yourselves molten gods. I the Lord am your God.

    ⁵And when you offer a sacrifice of peace offering to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.

    ⁶It 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.

    ⁷If it is eaten at all the third day, it is loathsome; it will not be accepted.

    ⁸But everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, for he has profaned a holy thing of the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from his people [and not be included in the atonement made for them].

    ⁹And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field to its very corners, neither shall you gather the fallen ears or gleanings of your harvest.

    ¹⁰And you shall not glean your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather its fallen grapes; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger. I am the Lord your God.

    ¹¹You shall not steal, or deal falsely, or lie one to another.^(B)

    ¹²And you shall not swear by My name falsely, neither shall you profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.

    ¹³You shall not defraud or oppress your neighbor or rob him; the wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until morning.

    ¹⁴You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall [reverently] fear your God. I am the Lord.

    ¹⁵You shall do no injustice in judging a case; you shall not be partial to the poor or show a preference for the mighty, but in righteousness and according to the merits of the case judge your neighbor.

    ¹⁶You shall not go up and down as a dispenser of gossip and scandal among your people, nor shall you [secure yourself by false testimony or by silence and] endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the Lord.

    ¹⁷You shall not hate your brother in your heart; but you shall surely rebuke your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him.^(C)

    ¹⁸You shall not take revenge or bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.^(D)

    ¹⁹You shall keep My statutes. You shall not let your domestic animals breed with a different kind [of animal]; you shall not sow your field with mixed seed, neither wear a garment of linen mixed with wool.

    ²⁰And if a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave betrothed to a husband and not yet ransomed or given her freedom, they shall be punished [after investigation]; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free;

    ²¹But he shall bring his guilt or trespass offering to the Lord to the door of the Tent of Meeting, a ram for a guilt or trespass offering.

    ²²The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt or trespass offering before the Lord for his sin, and he shall be forgiven for committing the sin.

    ²³And when you come into the land and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count the fruit of them as inedible and forbidden to you for three years; it shall not be eaten.

    ²⁴In the fourth year all their fruit shall be holy for giving praise to the Lord.

    ²⁵But in the fifth year you may eat of the fruit [of the trees], that their produce may enrich you; I am the Lord your God.

    ²⁶You shall not eat anything with the blood; neither shall you use magic, omens, or witchcraft [or predict events by horoscope or signs and lucky days].

    ²⁷You shall not round the corners of the hair of your heads nor trim the corners of your beard [as some idolaters do].

    ²⁸You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead nor print or tattoo any marks upon you; I am the Lord.

    ²⁹Do not profane your daughter by causing her to be a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry and become full of wickedness.

    ³⁰You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary. I am the Lord.

    ³¹Turn not to those [mediums] who have familiar spirits or to wizards; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.

    ³²You shall rise up before the hoary head and honor the face of the old man and [reverently] fear your God. I am the Lord.

    ³³And if a stranger dwells temporarily with you in your land, you shall not suppress and mistreat him.

    ³⁴But the stranger who dwells with you shall be to you as one born among you; and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

    ³⁵You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.

    ³⁶You shall have accurate and just balances, just weights, just ephah and hin measures. I am the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

    ³⁷You shall observe all My statutes and ordinances and do them. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 20

    ²Moreover, you shall say to the Israelites, Any one of the Israelites or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech [the fire god worshiped with human sacrifices] shall surely be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

    ³I also will set My face against that man [opposing him, withdrawing My protection from him, and excluding him from My covenant] and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given of his children to Molech, defiling My sanctuary and profaning My holy name.

    ⁴And if the people of the land do at all hide their eyes from the man when he gives one of his children [as a burnt offering] to Molech [the fire god] and they overlook it or neglect to take legal action to punish him, winking at his sin, and do not kill him [as My law requires],

    ⁵Then I will set My face against that man and against his family and will cut him off from among their people, him and all who follow him to [unfaithfulness to Me, and thus] play the harlot after Molech.

    ⁶The person who turns to those who have familiar spirits and to wizards, [being unfaithful to Israel's Maker Who is her Husband, and thus] playing the harlot after them, I will set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people [that he may not be included in the atonement made for them].^(E)

    ⁷Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am the Lord your God.

    ⁸And you shall keep My statutes and do them. I am the Lord Who sanctifies you.

    ⁹Everyone who curses his father or mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or mother; his bloodguilt is upon him.

    ¹⁰The man who commits adultery with another's wife, even his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.^(F)

    ¹¹And the man who lies carnally with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness; both of the guilty ones shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon their own heads.

    ¹²And if a man lies carnally with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have wrought confusion, perversion, and defilement; their blood shall be upon their own heads.

    ¹³If a man lies with a male as if he were a woman, both men have committed an offense (something perverse, unnatural, abhorrent, and detestable); they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

    ¹⁴And if a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness and an outrageous offense; all three shall be burned with fire, both he and they [after being stoned to death], that there be no wickedness among you.^(G)

    ¹⁵And if a man lies carnally with a beast, he shall surely be [stoned] to death, and you shall slay the beast.

    ¹⁶If a woman approaches any beast and lies carnally with it, you shall [stone] the woman and the beast; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

    ¹⁷If a man takes his sister, his father's or his mother's daughter, and sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a wicked and shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people; he has had sexual relations with his sister; he shall bear his iniquity.

    ¹⁸And if a man shall lie with a woman having her menstrual pains and shall uncover her nakedness, he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood; and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

    ¹⁹You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister or of your father's sister, for that is to make naked his close kin; they shall bear their iniquity.

    ²⁰And if a man shall lie carnally with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness; they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless [not literally, but in a legal sense].

    ²¹And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is impurity; he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless [not literally, but in a legal sense].

    ²²You shall therefore keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out [as it did those before you].^(H)

    ²³You shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I was wearied and grieved by them.

    ²⁴But I have said to you, You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, Who has separated you from the peoples.

    ²⁵You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean; and you shall not make yourselves detestable with beast or with bird or with anything with which the ground teems or that creeps, which I have set apart from you as unclean.

    ²⁶And you shall be holy to Me; for I the Lord am holy, and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be Mine.

    ²⁷A man or woman who is a medium and has a familiar spirit or is a wizard shall surely be put to death, be stoned with stones; their blood shall be upon them.

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⁵¹And at once the curtain of the ^[a]sanctuary of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; the earth shook and the rocks were split.^(A)

    ⁵²The tombs were opened and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep ^[b]in death were raised [to life];

    ⁵³And coming out of the tombs after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many people.

    ⁵⁴When the centurion and those who were with him keeping watch over Jesus observed the earthquake and all that was happening, they were terribly frightened and filled with awe, and said, Truly this was God's Son!

    ⁵⁵There were also numerous women there, looking on from a distance, who were of those who had accompanied Jesus from Galilee, ministering to Him.

    ⁵⁶Among them were Mary of Magdala, and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee's sons.

    ⁵⁷When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus.

    ⁵⁸He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him.

    ⁵⁹And Joseph took the body and ^[c]rolled it up in a clean linen cloth ^[d]used for swathing dead bodies

    ⁶⁰And laid it in his own fresh (^[e]undefiled) tomb, which he had hewn in the rock; and he rolled a big boulder over the door of the tomb and went away.

    ⁶¹And Mary of Magdala and the other Mary kept sitting there opposite the tomb.

    ⁶²The next day, that is, the day after the day of Preparation [for the Sabbath], the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled before Pilate

    ⁶³And said, Sir, we have just remembered how that ^[f]vagabond Imposter said while He was still alive, After three days I will rise again.

    ⁶⁴Therefore give an order to have the tomb made secure and safeguarded until the third day, for fear that His disciples will come and steal Him away and tell the people that He has risen from the dead, and the last deception and fraud will be worse than the first.

    ⁶⁵Pilate said to them, You have a guard [of soldiers; take them and] go, make it as secure as you can.

    ⁶⁶So they went off and made the tomb secure by sealing the boulder, a guard of soldiers being with them and remaining to watch.