19: 2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy; for I Jehovah your God am holy.
19: 3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am Jehovah your God.
19: 4 Turn ye not unto 78idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am Jehovah your God.
78Hb. the things of nought,
19: 5 And when ye offer a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto Jehovah, ye shall offer it that ye may be accepted.
19: 6 It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow: and if aught remain until the third day, it shall be burnt with fire.
19: 7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination; it shall not be accepted:
19: 8 but every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the holy thing of Jehovah: and that soul shall be cut off from his people.
19: 9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleaning of thy harvest.
19: 10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather the fallen fruit of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am Jehovah your God.
19: 11 Ye shall not steal; neither shall ye deal falsely, nor lie one to another.
19: 12 And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of thy God: I am Jehovah.
19: 13 Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbor, nor rob him: the wages of a hired servant shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
19: 14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind; but thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.
19: 15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.
19: 16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor: I am Jehovah.
19: 17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: thou shalt surely rebuke thy neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
19: 18 Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am Jehovah.
19: 19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with two kinds of seed: neither shall there come upon thee a garment of two kinds of stuff mingled together.
19: 20 And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to a husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; 79they shall be punished; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
79Hb. there shall be inquest;
19: 21 And he shall bring his trespass-offering unto Jehovah, unto the door of the tent of meeting, even a ram for a trespass-offering.
19: 22 And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering before Jehovah for his sin which he hath sinned: and the sin which he hath sinned shall be forgiven him.
19: 23 And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as their uncircumcision: three years shall they be as uncircumcised unto you; it shall not be eaten.
19: 24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy, for giving praise unto Jehovah.
19: 25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am Jehovah your God.
19: 26 Ye shall not eat anything with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantments, nor practice augury.
19: 27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
19: 28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead soul, nor print any marks upon you: I am Jehovah.
19: 29 Profane not thy daughter, to make her a harlot; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of 80wickedness.
80Or, enormity.
19: 30 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am Jehovah.
19: 31 Turn ye not unto them that have familiar spirits, nor unto the wizards; seek them not out, to be defiled by them: I am Jehovah your God.
19: 32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.
19: 33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not do him wrong.
19: 34 The stranger that sojourneth with you shall be unto you as the home-born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God.
19: 35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
19: 36 Just balances, 81just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
811 talent = 3,000 shekels; 1 shekel = 11.6 gm. 0.1 homer = 1 ephah (22 liter, 0.625 U.S. bushel) = 10 omers (“tenths”). [dry measure.] 1 bath (22 liter, 5.8 U.S. gallon) = 6 hin = 72 log. See R.B.Y. Scott, Weights and Measures of the Bible, in The Biblical Archaeologist Reader 3; Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday Anchor, 1970. p. 345-358.
19: 37 And ye shall observe all my statutes, and all mine ordinances, and do them: I am Jehovah.
