Leviticus 19:18-37
1599 Geneva Bible
18 ¶ Thou shalt not avenge, nor be mindful of wrong against the children of thy people, (A)but shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am the Lord.
19 ¶ Ye shall keep mine ordinances. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with [a]others of divers kinds. Thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed, neither shall a garment of divers things, as of linen and woolen come upon thee.
20 ¶ Whosoever also lieth and meddleth with a woman that is a bondmaid, affianced to a husband, and not redeemed, nor freedom given her, [b]she shall be scourged, but they shall not die, because she is not made free.
21 And he shall bring for his trespass offering unto the Lord, at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, a ram for a trespass offering.
22 Then the Priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the Lord, concerning his sin which he hath done, and pardon shall be given him for his sin which he hath committed.
23 ¶ Also when ye shall come into the land, and have planted every tree for meat, ye [c]shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten:
24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to the praise of the Lord.
25 And the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit of it, that it may [d]yield to you the increase thereof: I am the Lord your God.
26 ¶ Ye shall not eat the flesh with the [e]blood: ye shall not use witchcraft, nor [f]observe times.
27 (B)Ye shall not [g]cut round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou [h]mar the tufts of thy beard.
28 (C)Ye shall not cut your flesh for the [i]dead, nor make any print of a [j]mark upon you: I am the Lord.
29 ¶ Thou shalt not make thy daughter common, to cause her to be a [k]whore, lest the land also fall to whoredom, and the land be full of wickedness.
30 ¶ Ye shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my Sanctuary: I am the Lord.
31 ¶ Ye shall not regard them that work with spirits, (D)neither Soothsayers: ye shall not seek to them to be defiled by them, I am the Lord your God.
32 ¶ Thou shalt [l]rise up before the hoary head, and honor the person of the old man, and dread thy God: I am the Lord.
33 ¶ And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not [m]vex him.
34 (E)But the stranger that dwelleth with you, shall be as one of yourselves, and thou shalt love him as thyself: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
35 ¶ Ye shall not do unjustly in judgment, in [n]line, in weight, or in measure.
36 (F)You shall have just balances, true weights, a true [o]Ephah, and a true Hin, I am the Lord your God, which have brought you out of the land of Egypt.
37 Therefore shall ye observe all mine ordinances, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the Lord.
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- Leviticus 19:19 As a horse to leap an ass, or a mule a mare.
- Leviticus 19:20 Hebrew, a beating shall be, some read, they shall be beaten.
- Leviticus 19:23 It shall be unclean as that thing, which is not circumcised.
- Leviticus 19:25 Or, that God may multiply.
- Leviticus 19:26 Whether it be strangled, or otherwise.
- Leviticus 19:26 To measure lucky or unlucky days.
- Leviticus 19:27 As did the Gentiles in sign of mourning.
- Leviticus 19:27 Or, cut, or tear.
- Leviticus 19:28 Hebrew, soul or person.
- Leviticus 19:28 By whipping your bodies or burning marks therein.
- Leviticus 19:29 As did the Cyprians, and Locrians.
- Leviticus 19:32 In token of reverence.
- Leviticus 19:33 Or, do him wrong.
- Leviticus 19:35 As in measuring the ground.
- Leviticus 19:36 By these two measures he meaneth all others. Of Ephah, read Exod. 16:36, and of Hin, Exod. 29:40.
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