Leviticus 19:19-28

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁹ “You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; nor shall there come upon you a garment of cloth made of two kinds of stuff.

²⁰ “If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave, betrothed to another man and not yet ransomed or given her freedom, an inquiry shall be held. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free; ²¹ but he shall bring a guilt offering for himself to the Lord, to the door 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 the Lord for his sin which he has committed; and the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him.

²³ “When you come into the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden;^[a] three years it shall be forbidden to you, it must not be eaten. ²⁴ And in the fourth year all their fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the Lord. ²⁵ But in the fifth year you may eat of their fruit, that they may yield more richly for you: I am the Lord your God.

²⁶ “You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not practice augury or witchcraft. ²⁷ You shall not round off the hair on you temples or mar the edges of your beard. ²⁸ You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh on account of the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the Lord.