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19 Then Yahweh said to Moses, 2 ”Make sure to tell the entire people of Israel that they must be set apart, because I, Yahweh their God, am set apart from wrongdoing and impurity of the world. I want my people to be like me.
3 Everyone should show respect to their parents. Likewise, everyone should practice the Sabbath days and honor them. Remember: I am Yahweh your God!
4 No one should ever abandon me to worship worthless idols. Neither should anyone fashion for themselves idol statues out of cast metal. Remember: I alone am Yahweh your God!
5 Here is something else to tell the people: Whenever someone wants to sacrifice a fellowship sacrifice to me, to Yahweh, he should offer it in a way that I will accept. 6 The people of Israel may eat the meat that comes from such fellowship sacrifice on the day that he offers the sacrifice and on the following day. However, on the third day after he offered the sacrifice, the person who offered the fellowship sacrifice should completely burn the remaining meat. 7 If, for whatever reason, anyone ever eats the meat from a fellowship sacrifice on the third day after an individual offered it, I will no longer accept whatever sacrifice the individual offered. The meat is now considered desecrated. 8 The people of Israel must hold responsible for addressing his wrongdoing whoever eats that meat because he has defiled what is set apart for my purposes alone. I, Yahweh, will make the person who does this an outcast. The people of Israel should no longer consider that person to be one of my people.
9 Here is something else: Whenever the people of Israel gather in the harvest of their fields during harvest time, they should leave the corners of the fields unharvested. They should also refrain from picking up anything that they drop while harvesting. 10 Likewise, when the people of Israel harvest the grapes from their vineyards, they should pick every single grape, nor should they go back a second time to pick up the grapes that they have accidentally dropped. The people of Israel should leave the unharvested corners of their fields and the dropped grapes to provide food for those who are disadvantaged among them, like the poor and the immigrants. Remember, they should do this because I am Yahweh their God!
11 Here is how the people of Israel should treat one another: No one should steal, deceive, or lie to his fellow Israelite. 12 No one should call on me to be a false witness in order to acquit himself from the guilt of his wrongdoing. Doing so would dishonor me and associate the God of Israel with the impurity that comes from wrongdoing. Remember: I am Yahweh!
13 No one should extort the people close to him or steal anything from them. Neither should anyone withhold any wages for an inordinate amount of time from hired workers. 14 No one should ever pronounce a curse against someone who is deaf or intentionally do something that would cause someone who is blind to trip and fall. Instead, the people of Israel must fearfully recognize the power and authority of their God and act accordingly. Remember: I am Yahweh!
15 No one should ever unjustly judge someone. This means that no judge should give special treatment to someone who is poor and seemingly insignificant; neither should they favor someone who is wealthy and seemingly important. Rather, judges should always execute judgment fairly and ethically for the people of Israel.
16 No one should go about spreading false rumors about people. Neither should anyone act in such a way as to oppose the life of someone who is close to him by giving false testimony in court that might lead to someone's execution. Remember: I am Yahweh!
17 No one should act hatefully against someone who is close to him, although, in general, people should make a practice of holding their fellow Israelites accountable for their actions. The people of Israel must hold responsible for addressing his wrongdoing whoever acts hatefully against those who are close to him.
18 No one should try to get revenge against another person or be inordinately angry with one of his own people. Instead, the people of Israel should act lovingly to those who are closest to them. They should treat one another as they treat themselves. Remember: I am Yahweh!
19 Here are some more instructions about how the people of Israel are to live: They should be very careful to do what I have told them. In order to practice being people who set themselves apart for me alone, as a rule, the people of Israel should not mix things. They should not breed two kinds of animals that they own, nor should they sow two kinds of seeds in the same field. Likewise, they should not wear clothing that they have made from mixed fabrics.
20 Now, it may happen that a man has sexual relations with a woman and experiences a seminal emission. However, it may be that this woman was a female slave whose master had given her to be another man's wife, but the woman's master had not first paid for her bride price (which would secure her freedom) or outright freed her. If this is the case, then the woman's owner should pay a sum of money for the wrong he has done. The people of God must execute neither person who has sexual relations because she was not a free woman (and, therefore, her master had not properly given her to the man whom she was to marry) when the man had sexual relations with her. 21 However, the man who had sexual relations with the slave woman should bring the required penalty for his guilt to me, to Yahweh, at the entrance of the sacred tent. Specifically, he should offer a goat as a restoring sacrifice. 22 When this happens, the priest will have offered the goat as a restoring sacrifice in my presence, so that I, Yahweh, will remove the guilt that the man acquired because of the wrongdoing that he has done. Then I, Yahweh, will forgive the man of the wrongdoing he has done.
23 When the people of Israel enter the land that I have promised to give to them, they should plant various kinds of trees that produce fruit. However, for three years, the people of Israel should consider the fruit of these trees to be forbidden, as if they were a person's uncircumcised foreskin. During this time, no one should eat this fruit. 24 The next year, all the fruit of the trees the people of Israel have planted should be considered set apart for me. The people of Israel should offer them as special offerings of praise to me, to Yahweh. 25 But in the fifth year, the people of Israel may eat the fruit of the trees that they have planted. They should eat as much fruit as they can so that their yield of fruit increases every year. Remember: I am Yahweh your God!
26 No one should eat any meat that still has the animal’s blood in it. Also, no one should practice rituals that they believe will tell him what God will do in the future, nor should anyone interpret natural phenomena to figure out what will happen.
27 The people of Israel should not mourn for their dead as the people of the surrounding nations do. They should not shave the hairs of their heads, nor should they trim the corners of their beads.
28 The people of Israel should not cut their bodies when they mourn for people who have died. Likewise, they should not tattoo themselves. Remember: I am Yahweh!
29 The people of Israel should never disgrace the value of their daughters by forcing them to become prostitutes. If they do so, soon prostitutes will be so numerous that it will be as if the land itself is a prostitute. The land will be filled with all other kinds of depraved behavior.
30 The people of Israel should practice my Sabbath days and so honor them. They should also act reverently in my sacred tent. Remember: I am Yahweh.
31 No one should ever abandon me by inquiring of someone who speaks to the dead, nor should anyone seek the advice of someone who inquires of dead family members. Doing so will only make the people of Israel impure. Remember: I am Yahweh your God!
32 The people of Israel should respect elderly people by standing up when they enter the room. They should also honor the elderly. The people of Israel must fearfully recognize the power and authority of their God and act accordingly. Remember: I am Yahweh!
33 When immigrants live among the people of Israel in their land, the people of Israel must not mistreat them. 34 The people of Israel must treat immigrants who live with them like they treat the native-born person. Indeed, the people of Israel should act lovingly toward them, just as if they were their own bodies. This is because the people of Israel were once immigrants in Egypt. This means that they know what it means to be mistreated by the people who live in the land in which they are also living. Remember: I am Yahweh your God!
35 No one should ever unjustly judge someone with regards to how long something is, how much it weighs, or its volume. 36 This is because the people of Israel should always be using honest measuring sticks, weights on the scales, and measuring baskets. Remember: I am Yahweh your God, who is bringing the people of Israel out of Egypt.
37 The people of Israel should always be careful to do everything that I have told them to do and should obey my customs. Remember, above everything else: I am Yahweh!”
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