‘Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her menstrual impurity.

You shall not have intercourse with your neighbor’s wife, to be defiled with her.

You shall not give any of your offspring to offer them to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I am the Lord.

You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.

Also you shall not have intercourse with any animal to be defiled with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion.

‘Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled.

But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you

so that the land will not spew you out, should you defile it, as it has spewed out the nation which has been before you.

Thus you are to keep My charge, that you do not practice any of the abominable customs which have been practiced before you, so as not to defile yourselves with them; I am the Lord your God.’”

Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods; I am the Lord your God.

So if it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an offense; it will not be accepted.

‘Now when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.

‘You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

You shall not swear falsely by My name, so as to profane the name of your God; I am the Lord.

‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired man are not to remain with you all night until morning.

You shall not curse a deaf man, nor place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall revere your God; I am the Lord.

‘You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly.

You shall not go about as a slanderer among your people, and you are not to act against the life of your neighbor; I am the Lord.

‘You shall not hate your fellow countryman in your heart; you may surely reprove your neighbor, but shall not incur sin because of him.

You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord.

‘You are to keep My statutes. You shall not breed together two kinds of your cattle; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor wear a garment upon you of two kinds of material mixed together.

‘Now if a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave acquired for another man, but who has in no way been redeemed nor given her freedom, there shall be punishment; they shall not, however, be put to death, because she was not free.

‘When you enter the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. Three years it shall be forbidden to you; it shall not be eaten.

‘You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor practice divination or soothsaying.

You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard.

You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the Lord.

‘Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, so that the land will not fall to harlotry and the land become full of lewdness.

‘Do not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.

‘When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.

If the people of the land, however, should ever disregard that man when he gives any of his offspring to Molech, so as not to put him to death,

You shall also not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister or of your father’s sister, for such a one has made naked his blood relative; they will bear their guilt.

‘You are therefore to keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them, so that the land to which I am bringing you to live will not spew you out.

Moreover, you shall not follow the customs of the nation which I will drive out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I have abhorred them.

You are therefore to make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; and you shall not make yourselves detestable by animal or by bird or by anything that creeps on the ground, which I have separated for you as unclean.

He shall not defile himself as a relative by marriage among his people, and so profane himself.

They shall not make any baldness on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts in their flesh.

They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God, for they present the offerings by fire to the Lord, the food of their God; so they shall be holy.

They shall not take a woman who is profaned by harlotry, nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God.

‘The priest who is the highest among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, shall not uncover his head nor tear his clothes;

A widow, or a divorced woman, or one who is profaned by harlotry, these he may not take; but rather he is to marry a virgin of his own people,

so that he will not profane his offspring among his people; for I am the Lord who sanctifies him.’”

No man among the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a defect is to come near to offer the Lord’s offerings by fire; since he has a defect, he shall not come near to offer the food of his God.

only he shall not go in to the veil or come near the altar because he has a defect, so that he will not profane My sanctuaries. For I am the Lord who sanctifies them.’”

“Tell Aaron and his sons to be careful with the holy gifts of the sons of Israel, which they dedicate to Me, so as not to profane My holy name; I am the Lord.

a person who touches any such shall be unclean until evening, and shall not eat of the holy gifts unless he has bathed his body in water.

He shall not eat an animal which dies or is torn by beasts, becoming unclean by it; I am the Lord.

They shall therefore keep My charge, so that they will not bear sin because of it and die thereby because they profane it; I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

‘No layman, however, is to eat the holy gift; a sojourner with the priest or a hired man shall not eat of the holy gift.

If a priest’s daughter is married to a layman, she shall not eat of the offering of the gifts.

They shall not profane the holy gifts of the sons of Israel which they offer to the Lord,

Whatever has a defect, you shall not offer, for it will not be accepted for you.

Those that are blind or fractured or maimed or having a running sore or eczema or scabs, you shall not offer to the Lord, nor make of them an offering by fire on the altar to the Lord.

In respect to an ox or a lamb which has an overgrown or stunted member, you may present it for a freewill offering, but for a vow it will not be accepted.

Also anything with its testicles bruised or crushed or torn or cut, you shall not offer to the Lord, or sacrifice in your land,

nor shall you accept any such from the hand of a foreigner for offering as the food of your God; for their corruption is in them, they have a defect, they shall not be accepted for you.’”

But, whether it is an ox or a sheep, you shall not kill both it and its young in one day.

“You shall not profane My holy name, but I will be sanctified among the sons of Israel; I am the Lord who sanctifies you,

‘For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation. You shall not do any work; it is a sabbath to the Lord in all your dwellings.

On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.

But for seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.’”

‘When you reap the harvest of your land, moreover, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field nor gather the gleaning of your harvest; you are to leave them for the needy and the alien. I am the Lord your God.’”

You shall not do any laborious work, but you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord.’”

You shall not do any work on this same day, for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement on your behalf before the Lord your God.

If there is any person who will not humble himself on this same day, he shall be cut off from his people.

but during the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath rest, a sabbath to the Lord; you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard.

Your harvest’s aftergrowth you shall not reap, and your grapes of untrimmed vines you shall not gather; the land shall have a sabbatical year.

You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow, nor reap its aftergrowth, nor gather in from its untrimmed vines.

If you make a sale, moreover, to your friend or buy from your friend’s hand, you shall not wrong one another.

So you shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.

But if you say, “What are we going to eat on the seventh year if we do not sow or gather in our crops?”

‘The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are but aliens and sojourners with Me.

But if he has not found sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of its purchaser until the year of jubilee; but at the jubilee it shall revert, that he may return to his property.

But if it is not bought back for him within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city passes permanently to its purchaser throughout his generations; it does not revert in the jubilee.

But pasture fields of their cities shall not be sold, for that is their perpetual possession.

Do not take usurious interest from him, but revere your God, that your countryman may live with you.

You shall not give him your silver at interest, nor your food for gain.

‘If a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave’s service.

For they are My servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt; they are not to be sold in a slave sale.

You shall not rule over him with severity, but are to revere your God.

You may even bequeath them to your sons after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves. But in respect to your countrymen, the sons of Israel, you shall not rule with severity over one another.

Like a man hired year by year he shall be with him; he shall not rule over him with severity in your sight.

Even if he is not redeemed by these means, he shall still go out in the year of jubilee, he and his sons with him.

‘You shall not make for yourselves idols, nor shall you set up for yourselves an image or a sacred pillar, nor shall you place a figured stone in your land to bow down to it; for I am the Lord your God.

Moreover, I will make My dwelling among you, and My soul will not reject you.

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.

‘But if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments,

if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,

If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

Your strength will be spent uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.

‘And if by these things you are not turned to Me, but act with hostility against Me,

When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread in rationed amounts, so that you will eat and not be satisfied.

‘Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me,

I will lay waste your cities as well and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.

All the days of its desolation it will observe the rest which it did not observe on your sabbaths, while you were living on it.

Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so abhor them as to destroy them, breaking My covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God.

He shall not replace it or exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; or if he does exchange animal for animal, then both it and its substitute shall become holy.

If, however, it is any unclean animal of the kind which men do not present as an offering to the Lord, then he shall place the animal before the priest.

Yet if he will not redeem the field, but has sold the field to another man, it may no longer be redeemed;

Or if he consecrates to the Lord a field which he has bought, which is not a part of the field of his own property,

But if it is among the unclean animals, then he shall redeem it according to your valuation and add to it one-fifth of it; and if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.