Leviticus 19-21 (Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition)

Leviticus 19

 ¹The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

    ²Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: Be ye holy, because I the Lord your God am holy.

    ³Let every one fear his father, and his mother. Keep my sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.

    ⁴Turn ye not to idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods. I am the Lord your God.

    ⁵If ye offer in sacrifice a peace offering to the Lord, that he may be favourable,

    ⁶You shall eat it on the same day it was offered, and the next day: and whatsoever shall be left until the third day, you shall burn with fire.

    ⁷If after two days ally man eat thereof, he shall be profane and guilty of impiety:

    ⁸And shall bear his iniquity, because he hath defiled the holy thing of the Lord, and that soul shall perish from among his people.

    ⁹When thou reapest the corn of thy land, thou shalt not cut down all that is on the face of the earth to the very ground: nor shalt thou gather the ears that remain.

    ¹⁰Neither shalt thou gather the bunches and grapes that fall down in thy vineyard, but shalt leave them to the poor and the strangers to take. I am the Lord your God.

    ¹¹You shall not steal. You shall not lie, neither shall any man deceive his neighbour.

    ¹²Thou shalt not swear falsely by my name, nor profane the name of thy God. I am the Lord.

    ¹³Thou shalt not calumniate thy neighbour, nor oppress him by violence. The wages of him that hath been hired by thee shall not abide with thee until the morning.

    ¹⁴Thou shalt not speak evil of the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind: but thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, because I am the Lord.

    ¹⁵Thou shalt not do that which is unjust, nor judge unjustly. Respect not the person of the poor, nor honour the countenance of the mighty. But judge thy neighbour according to justice.

    ¹⁶Thou shalt not be a detractor nor a whisperer among the people. Thou shalt not stand against the blood of thy neighbour. I am the Lord.

    ¹⁷Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart, but reprove him openly, lest thou incur sin through him.

    ¹⁸Seek not revenge, nor be mindful of the injury of thy citizens. Thou shalt love thy friend as thyself. I am the Lord.

    ¹⁹Keep ye my laws. Thou shalt not make thy cattle to gender with beasts of any other kind. Thou shalt not sow thy field with different seeds. Thou shalt not wear a garment that is woven of two sorts.

    ²⁰If a man carnally lie with a woman that is a bondservant and marriageable, and yet not redeemed with a price, nor made free: they both shall be scourged, and they shall not be put to death, because she was not a free woman.

    ²¹And for his trespass he shall offer a ram to the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony:

    ²²And the priest shall pray for him and for his sin before the Lord, and he shall have mercy on him, and the sin shall be forgiven.

    ²³When you shall be come into the land, and shall have planted in it fruit trees, you shall take away the firstfruits of them: the fruit that comes forth shall be unclean to you, neither shall you eat of them.

    ²⁴But in the fourth year, all their fruit shall be sanctified, to the praise of the Lord.

    ²⁵And in the fifth year you shall eat the fruits thereof, gathering the increase thereof. I am the Lord your God.

    ²⁶You shall not eat with blood. You shall not divine nor observe dreams.

    ²⁷Nor shall you cut your hair roundwise: nor shave your beard.

    ²⁸You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh, for the dead, neither shall you make in yourselves any figures or marks: I am the Lord.

    ²⁹Make not thy daughter a common strumpet, lest the land be defiled, and filled with wickedness.

    ³⁰Keep ye my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.

    ³¹31Go not aside after wizards, neither ask any thing of soothsayers, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.

    ³²Rise up before the hoary head, and honour the person of the aged man: and fear the Lord thy God. I am the Lord.

    ³³If a stranger dwell in your land, and abide among you, do not upbraid him :

    ³⁴But let him be among you as one of the same country: and you shall love him as yourselves: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

    ³⁵Do not any unjust thing in judgment, in rule, in weight, or in measure.

    ³⁶Let the balance be just and the weights equal, the bushel just, and the sextary equal. I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of the land of Egypt.

    ³⁷Keep all my precepts, and all my judgments, and do them. I am the Lord.

   

Leviticus 20

 ¹And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

    ²Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: If any man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers, that dwell in Israel, give of his seed to the idol Moloch, dying let him die: the people of the land shall stone him.

    ³And I will set my face against him: and I will cut him off from the midst of his people, because he hath given of his seed to Moloch, and hath defiled my sanctuary, and profaned my holy name.

    ⁴And if the people of the land neglecting, and as it were little regarding my commandment, let alone the man that hath given of his seed to Moloch, and will not kill him:

    ⁵I will set my face against that man, and his kindred, and will cut off both him and all that consented with him, to commit fornication with Moloch, out of the midst of their people.

    ⁶The soul that shall go aside after magicians, and soothsayers, and shall commit fornication with them, I will set my face against that soul, and destroy it out of the midst of its people.

    ⁷Sanctify yourselves, and be ye holy because I am the Lord your God.

    ⁸Keep my precepts, and do them. I am the Lord that sanctify you.

    ⁹He that curseth his father, or mother, dying let him die: he hath cursed his father, and mother, let his blood be upon him.

    ¹⁰If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile his neighbour's wife, let then: be put to death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.

    ¹¹If a man lie with his stepmother, and discover the nakedness of his father, let them both be put to death: their blood be upon them.

    ¹²If any man lie with his daughter in law, let both die, because they have done a heinous crime: their blood be upon them.

    ¹³If any one lie with a man se with a woman, both have committed an abomination, let them be put to death: their blood be upon them.

    ¹⁴If any man after marrying the daughter, marry her mother, he hath done a heinous crime: he shall be burnt alive with them: neither shall so great an abomination remain in the midst of you.

    ¹⁵He that shall copulate with any beast or cattle, dying let him die, the beast also ye shall kill.

    ¹⁶The woman that shall lie under any beast, shall be killed together with the same: their blood be upon them.

    ¹⁷If any man take his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother, and see her nakedness, and she behold her brother's shame: they have committed a crime: they shall be slain, in the sight of their people, because they have discovered one another's nakedness, and they shall bear their iniquity.

    ¹⁸If any man lie with a woman in her flowers, and uncover her nakedness, and she open the fountain of her blood, both shall be destroyed out of the midst of their people.

    ¹⁹Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy aunt by thy mother, and of thy aunt by thy father: he that doth this, hath uncovered the shame of his own flesh, both shall bear their iniquity.

    ²⁰If any mall lie with the wife of his uncle by the father, or of his uncle by the mother, and uncover the shame of his near akin, both shall bear their sin: they shall die without children.

    ²¹He that marrieth his brother's wife, doth an unlawful thing, he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness: they shall be without children.

    ²²Keep my laws and my judgments, and do them: lest the land into which you are to enter to dwell therein, vomit you also out.

    ²³Walk not after the laws of the nations, which I will cast out before you. For they have done all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

    ²⁴But to you I say: Possess their land which I will give you for an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from other people.

    ²⁵Therefore do you also separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the clean fowl from the unclean: defile not your souls with beasts, or birds, or any things that move on the earth, and which I have shewn you to be unclean.

    ²⁶You shall be holy unto me, because I the Lord am holy, and I have separated you from other people, that you should be mine.

    ²⁷A man, or woman, in whom there is a pythonical or divining spirit, dying let them die: they shall stone them: their blood be upon them.

   

Leviticus 21

 ¹The Lord said also to Moses: Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, and thou shalt say to them: Let not a priest incur an uncleanness at the death of his citizens:

    ²But only for his kin, such as are near in blood, that is to say, for his father and for his mother, and for his son, and for his daughter, for his brother also,

    ³And for a maiden sister, who hath had no husband:

    ⁴But not even for the prince of his people shall he do any thing that may make him unclean.

    ⁵Neither shall they shave their head, nor their beard, nor make incisions in their flesh.

    ⁶They shall be holy to their God, and shall not profane his name: for they offer the burnt offering of the Lord, and the bread of their God, and therefore they shall be holy.

    ⁷They shall not take to wife a harlot or a vile prostitute, nor one that has been put away from her husband: because they are consecrated to their God,

    ⁸And offer the leaves of proposition. Let them therefore be holy, because I also am holy, the Lord, who sanctify them.

    ⁹If the daughter of a priest be taken in whoredom, and dishonour the name of her father, she shall be burnt with fire.

    ¹⁰The high priest, that is to say, the priest, is the greatest among his brethren. upon whose head the oil of unction hath been poured, and whose hands have been consecrated for the priesthood, and who hath been vested with the holy vestments, shall not uncover his head, he shall not rend his garments:

    ¹¹Nor shall he go in at all to any dead person: not even for his father, or his mother, shall he be defiled:

    ¹²Neither shall he go out of the holy places, lest he defile the sanctuary of the Lord, because the oil of the holy unction of his God is upon him. I am the Lord.

    ¹³He shall take a virgin unto his wife:

    ¹⁴But a widow or one that is divorced, or defiled, or a harlot, he shall not take, but a maid of his own people :

    ¹⁵He shall not mingle the stock of his kindred with the common people of his nation: for I am the Lord who sanctify him.

    ¹⁶And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

    ¹⁷Say to Aaron: Whosoever of thy seed throughout their families, hath a blemish, he shall not offer bread to his God.

    ¹⁸Neither shall he approach to minister to him: If he be blind, if he be lame, if he have a little, or a great, or a crooked nose,

    ¹⁹If his foot, or if his hand be broken,

    ²⁰If he be crookbacked, or blear eyed, or have a pearl in his eye, or a continual scab, or a dry scurf in his body, or a rupture:

    ²¹Whosoever of the seed of Aaron the priest hath a blemish, he shall not approach to offer sacrifices to the Lord, nor bread to his God.

    ²²He shall eat nevertheless of the loaves, that are offered in the sanctuary,

    ²³Yet so that he enter not within the veil, nor approach to the altar, because he hath a blemish, and he must not defile my sanctuary. I am the Lord who sanctify them.

    ²⁴Moses therefore spoke to Aaron, and to his sons and to all Israel, all the things that had been commanded him.