The Scriptures 1998

Leviticus 19:10-25 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

10. ‘And do not glean your vineyard or gather every grape of your vineyard, leave them for the poor and the stranger. I am יהוה your Elohim.

11. ‘Do not steal, do not lie, do not deceive one another.

12. ‘And do not swear falsely by My Name and so profane the Name of your Elohim. I am יהוה.

13. ‘Do not oppress your neighbour or rob him. The wages of him who is hired is not to remain with you all night until morning.

14. ‘Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling-block before the blind, but fear your Elohim. I am יהוה.

15. ‘Do no unrighteousness in right-ruling. Do not be partial to the poor or favour the face of the great, but rightly rule your neighbour in righteousness.

16. ‘Do not go slandering among your people. Do not stand against the blood of your neighbour. I am יהוה.

17. ‘Do not hate your brother in your heart. Reprove your neighbour, for certain, and bear no sin because of him.

18. ‘Do not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the children of your people. And you shall love your neighbour as yourself. I am יהוה.

19. ‘Guard My laws. Do not let your livestock mate with another kind. Do not sow your field with mixed seed. And do not put a garment woven of two sorts of thread upon you.

20. ‘And when a man has intercourse with a woman who is a female servant, engaged to a man, and who has not at all been ransomed nor redeemed, there should be an inquiry. But they are not put to death, because she was not free.

21. ‘And he shall bring his guilt offering to יהוה, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, a ram as a guilt offering.

22. ‘And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before יהוה for his sin which he has done. And the sin which he has sinned shall be forgiven him.

23. ‘And when you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall reckon their fruit as uncircumcised. For three years it is as uncircumcised to you, it is not eaten.

24. ‘And in the fourth year all its fruit is set-apart – praises to יהוה.

25. ‘And in the fifth year you eat its fruit, so that it increases its yield to you. I am יהוה your Elohim.