Various laws and regulations
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And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 📚“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them, You shall be holy; for I the LORD your God am holy.3 📚“Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and keep my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
4 📚“Do not turn to idols, or make cast metal gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.
5 📚“And if you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, you shall offer it for your acceptance. 6 📚It must be eaten the same day you offer it and on the next day; if any of it remains until the third day, it must be burned in the fire. 7 📚For if any of it is eaten on the third day, it is offensive. It shall not be accepted. 8 📚Therefore everyone who eats it shall bear his guilt, because he has profaned a thing consecrated to the LORD, and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
9 📚“And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not fully reap the corners of your field, and you shall not gather the gleanings of your harvest. 10 📚And you shall not go over your vineyard a second time, nor gather every grape of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and foreigner; I am the LORD your God.
19:9-10 Lev 23:22; Deut 24:20-22. See God’s concern for the poor and needy, and the duty of God’s people to help them.🪶
11 📚“You shall not steal, or cheat, or lie to one another.
12 📚“And you shall not swear falsely by my name, nor profane the name of your God; I am the LORD.
13 📚“You shall not defraud your neighbour, or rob him; the wages of a hired person are not to remain with you all night until the morning.
14 📚“You shall not curse the deaf, or put a stumbling block before the blind, but shall fear your God; I am the LORD.
15 📚“You shall not pervert justice. You shall not be partial to the poor, or honour the person of the great; but shall judge your neighbor righteously.
16 📚“You shall not go up and down as a talebearer among your people; and you shall not take a stand against the life of your neighbour; I am the LORD.
17 📚“You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall by all means rebuke your neighbour, and not share in his guilt.
18 📚“You shall not take vengeance 📖, or hold any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbour as yourself 📖; I am the LORD.
19 📚“You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let two different kinds of your livestock mate together. You shall not sow your field with mixed seed, nor wear a garment of two different kinds of material.
20 📚“And whoever has intercourse with a woman who is a slave betrothed to another man, and she is not redeemed or given her freedom, there shall be punishment, but they shall not be put to death, because she was not free. 21 📚And he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, a ram for a trespass offering. 22 📚And the priest shall make atonement for him in the presence of the LORD, with the ram of the trespass offering for his sin which he has committed; and the sin which he has committed will be forgiven him.
23 📚“And after you enter the land, and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as uncircumcised; it shall be as uncircumcised to you for three years; it shall not be eaten. 24 📚But in the fourth year all their fruit shall be holy with which to praise the LORD. 25 📚And in the fifth year you may eat of their fruit, so that it may yield their increase for you; I am the LORD your God.
26 📚“You shall not eat anything with the blood 📖. And you shall not use divination 📖, or sorcery.
27 📚“You shall not round off the hair at the sides of your heads, nor trim the corners of your beard.
28 📚“You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead, or make any tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.
29 📚“Do not degrade your daughter to make her a prostitute, or the land will fall into prostitution, and the land will become full of wickedness.
30 📚“You shall keep my Sabbaths, and show reverence for my sanctuary; I am the LORD.
31 📚“Do not turn to mediums, or seek out spiritists, or you will be defiled by them; I am the LORD your God.
19:31 Note at Ex 22:18.🪶
32 📚“You shall rise in the presence of the gray head, and honour the presence of the aged, and fear your God; I am the LORD.
33 📚“And if a foreigner is staying with you in your land, you shall not oppress him. 34 📚The foreigner who lives with you shall be to you like one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.
35 📚“You shall not pervert justice in measuring length, or weight, or quantity. 36 📚You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
19:35-36 Deut 25:13-16; Prov 20:10; Ezek 45:10. An ephah was a dry measure, a hin was a liquid measure.🪶
37 📚“Therefore you shall observe all my regulations and all my laws to do them; I am the LORD”.