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19 A repetition of sundry Laws and Ordinances.
1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto all the Congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, (A)Ye shall be [a]holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.
3 ¶ Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father, and shall keep my Sabbath: for I am the Lord your God.
4 ¶ Ye shall not turn unto idols, nor make you molten gods: I am the Lord your God.
5 ¶ And when ye shall offer a peace offering unto the Lord, ye shall offer it [b]freely.
6 (B)It shall be eaten the day ye offer it, or on the morrow: and that which remaineth until the third day, shall be burnt in the fire.
7 For if it be eaten the third day, it shall be unclean, it shall not be [c]accepted.
8 Therefore he that eateth it, shall bear his iniquity, because he hath defiled the hallowed thing of the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from his people.
9 ¶ (C)When ye reap the harvest of your land, ye shall not reap every corner of your field, neither shalt thou gather the [d]gleanings of thy harvest.
10 Thou shalt not gather the grapes of thy vineyard clean, neither gather every grape of thy vineyard, but thou shalt leave them for the poor and for the stranger: I am the Lord your God.
11 ¶ Ye shall not steal, neither [e]deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
12 ¶ (D)Also ye shall not swear by my Name falsely, neither shalt thou defile the Name of thy God: I am the Lord.
13 ¶ Thou shalt not do thy neighbor [f]wrong, neither rob him. (E)The workman’s hire shall not abide with thee until the morning.
14 ¶ Thou shalt not curse the deaf, (F)neither put a stumbling block before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the Lord.
15 ¶ Ye shall not do unjustly in judgment: (G)Thou shalt not favor the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty, but thou shalt judge thy neighbor justly.
16 ¶ Thou shalt not [g]walk about with tales among thy people: Thou shalt not [h]stand against the blood of thy neighbor: I am the Lord.
17 ¶ Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart, but thou shalt plainly rebuke thy neighbor, [i]and suffer him not to sin.
18 ¶ Thou shalt not avenge, nor be mindful of wrong against the children of thy people, (H)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 [j]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, [k]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 [l]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 [m]yield to you the increase thereof: I am the Lord your God.
26 ¶ Ye shall not eat the flesh with the [n]blood: ye shall not use witchcraft, nor [o]observe times.
27 (I)Ye shall not [p]cut round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou [q]mar the tufts of thy beard.
28 (J)Ye shall not cut your flesh for the [r]dead, nor make any print of a [s]mark upon you: I am the Lord.
29 ¶ Thou shalt not make thy daughter common, to cause her to be a [t]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, (K)neither Soothsayers: ye shall not seek to them to be defiled by them, I am the Lord your God.
32 ¶ Thou shalt [u]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 [v]vex him.
34 (L)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 [w]line, in weight, or in measure.
36 (M)You shall have just balances, true weights, a true [x]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.
20 2 They that give of their seed to Molech, must die. 6 They that have recourse to sorcerers. 10 The man that committeth adultery, 11 incest, or fornication with the kindred or affinity. 24 Israel a peculiar people to the Lord.
1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Thou shalt say also to the children of Israel, (N)Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that dwell in Israel, that giveth his children unto [y]Molech, he shall die the death, the people of the land shall stone him to death.
3 And I will [z]set my face against that man and cut him off from among his people, because he hath given his children unto Molech, for to defile my Sanctuary, and to pollute mine holy Name.
4 And if the [aa]people of the land hide their eyes, and wink at that man when he giveth his children unto Molech, and kill him not,
5 Then will I set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
6 ¶ If any turn after such as work with spirits, and after soothsayers to go a [ab]whoring after them, then will I set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.
7 ¶ Sanctify yourselves therefore, (O)and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.
8 Keep ye therefore mine ordinances, and do them: I am the Lord which doth sanctify you.
9 ¶ (P)If there be any that curseth his father or his mother he shall die the death, seeing he hath cursed his father and his mother, [ac]his blood shall be upon him.
10 ¶ (Q)And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, because he hath committed adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall die the death.
11 And the man that lieth with his father’s wife, because he hath uncovered his father’s (R)shame, they shall both die: their blood shall be upon them.
12 Also the man that lieth with his daughter-in-law, they both shall die the death, they have wrought [ad]abomination, their blood shall be upon them.
13 ¶ (S) The man also that lieth with the male, as one lieth with a woman, they have both committed abomination: they shall die the death, their blood shall be upon them.
14 Likewise he that taketh a wife and her mother, [ae]committeth wickedness: they shall burn him and them with fire, that there be no wickedness among you.
15 (T)Also the man that lieth with a beast, shall die the death, and ye shall slay the beast.
16 And if a woman come to any beast, and lie therewith, then thou shalt kill the woman and the beast: they shall die the death, their blood shall be upon them.
17 Also the man that taketh his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and seeth her shame, and she seeth his shame, it is villainy: therefore they shall be cut off in the sight [af]of their people, because he that uncovered his sister’s shame, he shall bear his iniquity.
18 (U)The man also that lieth with a woman having her [ag]disease, and uncovereth her shame, and openeth her fountain, and she open the fountain of her blood, they shall be even both cut off from among their people.
19 Moreover, thou shalt not uncover the shame of thy mother’s sister, (V)nor of thy father’s sister: because he hath uncovered his [ah]kin, they shall bear their iniquity.
20 Likewise the man that lieth with his father’s brother’s wife, and uncovereth his uncle’s shame: they shall bear their iniquity, and shall die [ai]childless.
21 So the man that taketh his brother’s wife, committeth filthiness, because he hath uncovered his brother’s [aj]shame, they shall be childless.
22 ¶ Ye shall keep therefore all mine (W)ordinances and all my judgments, and do them, that the land whither I bring you to dwell therein, (X)spew you not out.
23 Wherefore ye shall not walk in the manners of this nation which I cast out before you: for they have committed all these things, (Y)therefore I abhorred them.
24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, even a land that [ak]floweth with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God, which have separated you from other people.
25 (Z)Therefore shall ye put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean, neither shall ye [al]defile your fowls with beasts and fowls, nor with any creeping thing, that the ground bringeth forth, which I have separated from you as unclean.
26 Therefore shall ye be (AA)holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and I have separated you from other people that ye should be mine.
27 ¶ (AB)And if a man or woman have a spirit of divination, or soothsaying in them, they shall die the death: they shall stone them to death, their blood shall be upon them.
21 2 For whom the Priests may lament. 6 How pure the Priests ought to be, both in themselves, and in their family.
1 And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto the Priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, Let none be [am]defiled by the dead among his people,
2 But by his kinsman that is near unto him: to wit, by his mother, or by his father, or by his son, or by his daughter, or by his brother,
3 Or by his sister a [an]maid, that is near unto him, which had not had an husband: for her [ao]he may lament.
4 He shall not lament for the [ap]Prince among his people, to pollute himself.
5 They shall not make (AC)bald parts upon their head, nor shave off the locks of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
6 They shall be holy unto their God, and not pollute the Name of their God: for the sacrifices of the Lord made by fire, and the bread of their God they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.
7 They shall not take to wife an whore, or [aq]one polluted, neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband: for such one is holy unto his God.
8 Thou shalt [ar]sanctify him therefore, for he offereth the [as]bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the Lord which sanctify you, am holy.
9 ¶ If a Priest’s daughter fall to play the whore, she polluteth her father: therefore shall she be burnt with fire.
10 ¶ Also the high Priest among his brethren, (upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and hath consecrated his hand to put on the garments) shall not [at]uncover his head nor rent his clothes.
11 Neither shall he go to any [au]dead body, nor make himself unclean by his father or by his mother,
12 Neither shall he go out of the [av]Sanctuary, nor pollute the holy place of his God: for the [aw]crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord.
13 Also he shall take a maid unto his wife:
14 But a widow, or a divorced woman, or a polluted, or an harlot, these shall he not marry, but shall take a maid of his own [ax]people to wife:
15 Neither shall he defile his [ay]seed among his people: for I am the Lord which sanctify him.
16 ¶ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
17 Speak unto Aaron, and say, Whosoever of thy seed in their generations hath any blemishes, shall not prease to offer the bread of his God:
18 For whosoever hath any blemish, shall not come near: as a man blind or lame, or that hath [az]a flat nose, or that hath any [ba]misshapen member,
19 Or, a man that hath a broken foot, or a broken hand,
20 Or, is crookbacked, or bleary-eyed, [bb]or hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken.
21 None of the seed of Aaron the Priest that hath a blemish, shall come near to offer the sacrifices of the Lord made by fire, having a blemish: he shall not prease to offer the [bc]bread of his God.
22 The bread of his God, even of the [bd]most holy, and [be]of the holy shall he eat:
23 But he shall not go in unto the [bf]veil, nor come near the altar, because he hath a blemish, lest he pollute my Sanctuaries: for I am the Lord that sanctify them.
24 Thus spake Moses unto Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel.
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